Mortgage and Derivatives Market Flashcards
True or False. A Domestic exchange risk is a financial risk that exists when a financial transaction is denominated in a currency other than the foreign currency of a business entity.
False. Foreign exchange risk
True or false. Foreign exchange risk may lead to a decrease in revenue or an increase in cost in an international transaction due to a change in foreign exchange rates
True
True or false. In preventing exchange rate risk in a foreign currency markets, hedging, speculation, establishment of netting centers, particularly for large multinational companies. Trigger pricing, and diversification are the ways to do so.
False. Hedging, not speculation, establishment of netting centers, particularly for large multinational companies. Trigger pricing, and diversification are the ways to do so.
True or false. A market where borrowers can obtain a mortgage loan from a primary lender is financial market
False. Primary mortgage market
True or false. Banks, mortgage brokers, mortgage bankers, and credit unions are all secondary lenders and are part of the secondary mortgage market
False. they are all primary lenders and are part of the primary mortgage market
True or false. The market where lenders and investors buy and sell mortgages and their servicing rights is the primary mortgage market
False. Secondary mortgage market
True or false. The purpose of the primary mortgage market is to give lenders a steady source of money to lend, while also alleviating the risk of owning the mortgage
False. Secondary mortgage market
True or false. Mortgage is a legal agreement by which a bank or other creditor lends money at interest in exchange for taking title of the debtor’s property, with the condition that the conveyance of title does not become void upon payment of the debt.
False. Mortgage is a legal agreement by which a bank or other creditor lends money at interest in exchange for taking title of the debtor’s property, with the condition that the conveyance of title BECOME void upon payment of the debt.
True or false. Mortgage is an equity instrument that is secured by real estate
False. They are debt instrument
True or false. The type of a mortgage loan that is not insured or guaranteed by the government, but backed by private lenders, and its insurance is usually paid by the borrower is the insured mortgages
False. Conventional mortgage
True or false. Insured mortgages are protected by mortgage default insurance, the insurance protects the lender, not the borrower, against losses in the event of failure of mortgage payments of default on the loan.
True
True or false. A second mortgage or junior-lien is a loan you take out while you still have another loan secured by your house
True
True or false. The interest rate applied on the outstanding balance varies throughout the life of the loan, the interest rate for is not reset based on a benchmark or index is fixed rate mortage.
False. It’s adjustable rate mortgage and they are reset based on a benchmark or index.
True or false. The mortgage carries a constant interest rate from beginning to end is the adjustable rate mortgages
False. Fixed rate mortgages
True or false. It is where the payments increase gradually from an initial low base level to a higher final level; the payment starts out low and then gradually rises is the growing equity mortgage
False. graduated payment mortgage