1. Assuming a typical maturity structure and, say, a growing risk of Fed rate hikes, which side of a fixed-for-floating interest rate swap is a bank likely to be interested in receiving?

2. Identify two key liquidity risk management techniques that stopped working in the Great Financial Crisis of 2008

3. If a bank's balance sheet becomes insovlent, what options are there for the bank?

4. List THREE attractions that mortgage-backed securities could offer EU policymakers

5. Which "shadow" bank failure sparked off the crisis that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve System?