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FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE SHEET RISK
 6 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE-SHEET RISK [Abstract]  
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE-SHEET RISK

NOTE M - FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE SHEET RISK

 

The Company uses derivative financial instruments, such as interest rate floors and collars, as part of its interest rate risk management. Interest rate caps and floors are agreements whereby one party agrees to pay or receive a floating rate of interest on a notional principal amount for a predetermined period of time if certain market interest rate thresholds are met. The Company considers the credit risk inherent in these contracts to be negligible.

 

As of March 31, 2015 and September 30, 2014, the Company did not hold any interest rate floors or collars.

 

The Bank is a party to financial instruments with off-balance-sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its customers. These financial instruments are commitments to extend credit. Those instruments involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit and interest rate risk in excess of the amounts recognized in the balance sheets.

 

March 31, September 30 ,  
2015 2014  
(Dollars in thousands)
Financial instruments whose contract amounts      
represent credit risk                
Letters of credit   $ 1,120     $ 884  
Unused lines of credit     41,991       43,644  
Fixed rate loan commitments     3,381       1,900  
Variable rate loan commitments     11,877       8,500  
                 
    $ 58,369     $ 54,928