-119- personnel. FNBC did not include the total amounts of these costs but only the portions needed to manage its existing portfolio. FNBC’s administrative costs adjustments for the front office may also have included hedging expenses. 2. Amounts From Other Areas of FNBC FNBC’s administrative costs adjustment for swaps also included costs from other departments, including: (1) Computer systems; (2) accounting; (3) facilities management; (4) credit process review department; (5) corporate staff from other departments; (6) systems development; (7) general manager; (8) service products group; (9) risk management administration; (10) financial analysis; (11) corporate and institutional banking; and (12) other service charges. These costs, to the extent allocated to swaps and interest rate guarantees, included: (1) Charges from FNBC’s law department, audit department, data processing center, allocable rent (occupancy area), cost to hedge the swaps in existence to maturity, and telephone costs; (2) charges from FNBC’s credit policy group, which set policy on all customer credit transactions, including loans, leasing products and derivatives; (3) charges from management for the credit policy group in addition to other charges from the credit department of FNBC; (4) charges from FNBC’s treasury management group which was responsible for corporate customer cash and other accounts; (5) charges from FNBC’s facilities management section,Page: Previous 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 Next
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