There are multiple ways to manage interest rate risk.
Forwards
Forward rate agreements
Futures
Options
Swaps
Caps, floor, collars
This is basic financial engineering to manage risk. And yes, most hedge instruments cost money. But when you have that much capital resting on the interest rate, it is just basic good management to manage the risk against interest rates dissolving the value of your T-bills, especially when inflation is surging and you know the FED will want to raise the interest rates.
I work in the oil and gas industry - companies typically manage the commodity price in my industry. If in the financial industry investing in T-bills, dollars are your commodity, and interest rates are your risk, along with the counterparty risk.
These bankers and their Boards did not do their job.
These bankers and their Boards did not do their job.
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I’m not sure they didn’t. Maybe their goal was getting help from the government and they achieved that.