Interest Rate Risk and Duration Gap Exposure Audit

Review repricing gaps, duration mismatches, basis risk, earnings sensitivity, economic-value exposure, and hedging effectiveness.

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Interest Rate Risk and Duration Gap Exposure Audit

Review repricing gaps, duration mismatches, basis risk, earnings sensitivity, economic-value exposure, and hedging effectiveness.

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Act as a senior asset-liability management and treasury risk professional.

Conduct an interest-rate risk and duration-gap exposure review using the information provided below.

Organization:
{{organization_name}}

Measurement date and horizon:
{{measurement_horizon}}

Interest-sensitive assets:
{{rate_sensitive_assets}}

Interest-sensitive liabilities:
{{rate_sensitive_liabilities}}

Derivatives and hedges:
{{hedges}}

Yield-curve and scenario assumptions:
{{rate_scenarios}}

Policies, limits, and accounting basis:
{{policies_limits}}

Analysis requirements:

1. Confirm the valuation date, currencies, accounting basis, and treatment of optionality.
2. Classify assets and liabilities by:
   - fixed or floating rate;
   - reference index;
   - repricing date;
   - contractual maturity;
   - effective duration;
   - behavioral duration;
   - embedded options;
   - prepayment;
   - early withdrawal; and
   - currency.
3. Build repricing-gap tables by time bucket.
4. Calculate or specify:
   - cumulative repricing gap;
   - duration of assets;
   - duration of liabilities;
   - duration gap;
   - PV01 or DV01;
   - net interest income sensitivity;
   - economic value sensitivity; and
   - basis-risk exposure.
5. Evaluate parallel and non-parallel yield-curve shocks, including:
   - upward shift;
   - downward shift;
   - steepening;
   - flattening;
   - short-rate shock;
   - long-rate shock; and
   - basis widening.
6. Assess embedded optionality and behavioral assumptions.
7. Review derivative hedges for:
   - hedge objective;
   - notional;
   - duration;
   - maturity;
   - index basis;
   - effectiveness;
   - collateral;
   - counterparty risk; and
   - accounting treatment.
8. Identify concentration by tenor, currency, index, or counterparty.
9. Compare exposures with approved limits.
10. Flag model assumptions requiring validation.
11. Do not invent behavioral durations, prepayment rates, yield curves, hedge terms, or accounting conclusions.
12. Do not present the review as a statutory audit or assurance opinion.

Present the result as:
{{output_format}}

Include:
- executive interest-rate-risk assessment;
- data and methodology note;
- repricing-gap table;
- duration-gap analysis;
- NII sensitivity;
- economic-value sensitivity;
- curve and basis scenarios;
- optionality review;
- hedge-effectiveness review;
- limit breaches or near breaches;
- model-risk observations;
- management actions; and
- validation requirements.
Personalize the Template

Customization Variables

Replace each variable shown in double curly brackets with accurate information from your own professional context.

{{organization_name}}

Organization Name

Required

Example: Example: Horizon Finance Company

Enter the institution or treasury portfolio being reviewed.

{{measurement_horizon}}

Measurement Date and Horizon

Required

Example: Example: As at 30 June 2026, with 12-month NII horizon

Specify the valuation date and the earnings and economic-value horizons.

{{rate_sensitive_assets}}

Interest-Sensitive Assets

Required

Example: List balances, rates, indices, repricing dates, maturities, durations, currencies, and optionality.

Provide instrument-level or sufficiently granular bucketed data.

{{rate_sensitive_liabilities}}

Interest-Sensitive Liabilities

Required

Example: List deposits, debt, funding, rates, indices, repricing dates, maturities, and behavioral assumptions.

Include non-maturity deposits and other behaviorally modeled balances.

{{hedges}}

Derivatives and Hedges

Optional

Example: List swaps, caps, floors, futures, options, notionals, maturities, indices, and hedge designations.

Include both economic hedges and accounting-designated hedges.

{{rate_scenarios}}

Yield-Curve and Scenario Assumptions

Required

Example: Provide current curves and approved parallel, steepening, flattening, basis, and volatility shocks.

Use approved scenarios and label all curve sources and dates.

{{policies_limits}}

Policies, Limits, and Accounting Basis

Optional

Example: Provide risk limits, measurement policies, optionality assumptions, and accounting treatment.

Policies establish the applicable control and reporting framework.

{{output_format}}

Output Format

Required

Choose the format needed for risk management, governance, or model implementation.

ALM interest-rate-risk report Treasury committee paper Duration-gap model specification Independent risk review memorandum
What the AI Should Produce

Expected Output

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A structured interest-rate-risk review containing repricing gaps, duration metrics, NII and economic-value sensitivities, curve scenarios, optionality, hedges, limits, model risks, and management actions.

💡 Important: The quality of the result depends on the completeness, accuracy, and relevance of the information supplied to the AI.
Prompt Profile

Prompt Characteristics

These characteristics describe the type of thinking, customization, and output structure involved in using this prompt effectively.

🧠 Reasoning Depth Advanced
💡 Creativity Low
🛠 Customization High
📚 Output Structure Highly Structured
🎓 Experience Level Advanced
Learn Why It Works

Prompt Anatomy

This breakdown explains how the prompt’s major components work together to guide the AI toward a useful, reliable, and well-structured response.

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Role

Positions the AI as an ALM and treasury-risk specialist.

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Context

Combines assets, liabilities, hedges, curves, policies, limits, and behavioral assumptions.

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Task

Requires repricing-gap, duration, earnings, economic-value, and hedge analysis.

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Constraints

Prevents invented curves, behavioral assumptions, hedge terms, and audit conclusions.

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Output Structure

Requires gap tables, sensitivities, scenarios, optionality, hedges, limits, and actions.

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Input Variables

Organization, horizon, assets, liabilities, hedges, scenarios, policies, and output format.

Improve the Result

Customization Tips

  1. Provide instrument-level repricing and maturity data where possible.
  2. Separate contractual maturity from behavioral duration.
  3. Include non-parallel curve and basis shocks, not only parallel shifts.
  4. Document prepayment, withdrawal, and optionality assumptions explicitly.
  5. Compare both earnings sensitivity and economic-value sensitivity.
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