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Chapter Twelve. Thrift Institutions. Three Categories on Thrift Institutions: Overview. Savings Associations concentrated primarily on residential mortgages Savings Banks large concentration of residential mortgages commercial loans corporate bonds corporate stock Credit Unions
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Chapter Twelve Thrift Institutions
Three Categories on Thrift Institutions: Overview • Savings Associations • concentrated primarily on residential mortgages • Savings Banks • large concentration of residential mortgages • commercial loans • corporate bonds • corporate stock • Credit Unions • consumer loans funded with member deposits
Savings Associations • Historically referred to as savings and loan (S&L) associations • Net interest margin - interest income minus interest expense divided by earning assets • Disintermediation - withdrawal of deposits from depository institutions to be reinvested elsewhere, e.g., money market mutual funds • Regulation Q ceiling - an interest ceiling imposed on small savings and time deposits at banks and thrifts until 1986(continued)
Regulator forbearance - a policy of the FSLIC not to close economically insolvent FIs, allowing them to continue in operation • Savings institutions - savings association and savings banks combined • Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) of 1989 - abolished the FSLIC and created a new savings association insurance fund (SAIF) under the management of the FDIC • QTL test- qualified thrift lender test that sets a floor on the mortgage-related assets that thrifts can hold • Mutual organization - an institution in which the liability holders are also the owners
Balance Sheets of Savings Associations (percentage of total assets and liabilities) Item 1977 1982 Liabilities Fixed ceiling liabilities 87.3% 22.0% Market ceiling small time deposits 0.0 52.8 Discretionary liabilities 8.6 23.2 Other liabilities 4.0 2.0 Assets Mortgage assets 86.0 81.1 Fixed rate 86.0 74.9 Adjustable rate 0.0 6.2 Nonmortgage loans 2.3 2.6 Cash and investments 9.2 11.2 Other assets 2.5 5.1
Savings Banks • Established as mutual organizations and largely confined to the East Coast and New England states • Deposits are insured by the FDIC under the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) • Have been allowed greater freedom to diversify into corporate bonds and stocks • Rely more on deposits than savings associations and have fewer borrowed funds
Regulators of Savings Institutions • The Office of Thrift Supervision - established in 1989 under the FIRREA, charters and examines all federal savings institutions and supervises the holding companies of savings institutions • The FDIC - oversees, manages SAIF and BIF • SAIF - provides insurance coverage for savings associations • BIF - provides insurance coverage for savings banks • Other regulators - state-chartered savings institutions are regulated by state agencies
Credit Unions • Are not-for-profit depository institutions mutually organized and owned by their members (depositors) • CU member deposits (shares) used to provide loans to other members with earnings from these loans used to pay interest on member deposits • Tend to hold higher levels of equity than other depository institutions • Can be federally chartered and regulated by NCUA or state chartered and regulated by the state • Growth is not the primary goal