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FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE SHEET RISK
3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE SHEET RISK [Abstract]  
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE SHEET RISK

NOTE N - FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS WITH OFF-BALANCE SHEET RISK

 

The Company occasionally 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 December 31, 2019 and September 30, 2019, the Company did not hold any interest rate floors or collars.

 

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

 

   December 31,   September 30, 
   2019   2019 
   (In thousands) 
Financial instruments whose contract amounts          
represent credit risk          
Letters of credit  $962   $1,315 
Unused lines of credit   49,644    56,405 
Fixed rate loan commitments   1,757    3,362 
Variable rate loan commitments   17,370    12,141 
          
 Total  $69,733   $73,223