Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
The fair values of certain assets and liabilities are sensitive to changes in market interest rates. The impact of changes in interest rates would be reduced by the fact that increases (decreases) in fair values of assets would be partially offset by corresponding changes in fair values of liabilities. In aggregate, the estimated impact of an immediate and sustained 100 basis points (“bps”) increase or decrease in interest rates on the fair values of our interest rate-sensitive financial instruments would not be material to our financial position. We derived the changes in fair values by modeling estimated cash flows of certain assets and liabilities.
The estimated increases (decreases) in fair values of interest rate-sensitive financial instruments were as follows:
December 31, 2020 2019
(dollars in millions) +100 bps -100 bps +100 bps -100 bps
Assets
Net finance receivables, less allowance for finance receivable losses (a)
$ (210) $ 215 $ (218) $ 223
Fixed-maturity investment securities (b)
(78) 82 (72) 74
Liabilities
Long-term debt (b)
$ (652) $ 673 $ (667) $ 713
(a) We did not adjust the estimated cash flows for any future loan originations.
(b) We adjusted the estimated cash flows to reflect expected prepayment and calls, but did not consider any new investment purchases or debt issuances.
We did not enter into interest rate-sensitive financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes.
Readers should exercise care in drawing conclusions based on the above analysis. While these changes in fair values provide a measure of interest rate sensitivity, they do not represent our expectations about the impact of interest rate changes on our financial results. This analysis is also based on our exposure at a particular point in time and incorporates numerous assumptions and estimates. It also assumes an immediate change in interest rates, without regard to the impact of certain business decisions or initiatives that we would likely undertake to mitigate or eliminate some or all of the adverse effects of the modeled scenarios.
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