A trader for EtaBank wants to take a leveraged position in Collateralized Debt Obligations. These CDOs can
be used in a repurchase transaction at a 20% haircut. Starting with $100 worth of CDOs, which one of the
following four positions would completely utilize the available leverage?

ThetaBank has extended substantial financing to two mortgage companies, which these mortgage lenders use
to finance their own lending. Individually, each of the mortgage companies has an exposure at default (EAD)
of $20 million, with a loss given default (LGD) of 100%, and a probability of default of 10%. ThetaBank's risk
department predicts the joint probability of default at 5%. If the default risk of these mortgage companies were
modeled as independent risks, what would be the probability of a cumulative $40 million loss from these two
mortgage borrowers?

All of the following factors generally explain the equity bid-offer spread in a market EXCEPT:

According to Basel II what constitutes Tier 2 capital?

Which one of the following four exercise features is typical for the most exchange-traded equity options?