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FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE SHEET RISK
12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE-SHEET RISK [Abstract]  
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE-SHEET RISK

NOTE Q - FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE-SHEET RISK

 

The Company may use 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 September 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company did not hold any interest rate floors or collars.

 

The Company 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 Consolidated Balance Sheets.

 

The Company’s exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other parties to the financial instrument for commitments to extend credits is represented by the contractual notional amount of those instruments. The Company uses the same credit policies in making commitments and conditional obligations as it does for on-balance-sheet instruments.

 

At September 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company had outstanding commitments (substantially all of which expire within one year) to originate one-to four-family residential loans, construction loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans and consumer loans. These commitments were comprised of fixed and variable rate loans.

 

   September 30, 
   2019   2018 
   (In thousands) 
Financial instruments whose contract amounts          
represent credit risk          
Letters of credit  $1,315   $1,939 
Unused lines of credit   56,405    54,127 
Fixed rate loan commitments   3,362    4,397 
Variable rate loan commitments   12,141    12,523 
Total  $73,223   $72,986