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The following table summarizes the gains (losses) on the Company’s fair value hedges for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010:
Gains (losses) on fair value hedges
Year ended December 31,
(1)
In millions of dollars 2012 2011 2010
Gain (loss) on derivatives in designated and qualifying fair value hedges
Interest rate contracts $ 122 $ 4,423 $ 948
Foreign exchange contracts 377 (117) 729
Total gain (loss) on derivatives in designated and qualifying fair value hedges $ 499 $ 4,306 $ 1,677
Gain (loss) on the hedged item in designated and qualifying fair value hedges
Interest rate hedges $(371) $(4,296) $ (945)
Foreign exchange hedges (331) 26 (579)
Total gain (loss) on the hedged item in designated and qualifying fair value hedges $(702) $(4,270) $(1,524)
Hedge ineffectiveness recognized in earnings on designated and qualifying fair value hedges
Interest rate hedges $(249) $ 118 $ (23)
Foreign exchange hedges 16 1 10
Total hedge ineffectiveness recognized in earnings on designated and qualifying fair value hedges $(233) $ 119 $ (13)
Net gain (loss) excluded from assessment of the effectiveness of fair value hedges
Interest rate contracts $ — $ 9 $ 26
Foreign exchange contracts 30 (92) 140
Total net gain (loss) excluded from assessment of the effectiveness of fair value hedges $ 30 $ (83) $ 166
(1) Amounts are included in Other revenue on the Consolidated Statement of Income. The accrued interest income on fair value hedges is recorded in Net interest revenue and is excluded from this table.
c ash Flow Hedges
Hedging of benchmark interest rate risk
Citigroup hedges variable cash flows resulting from floating-rate liabilities
and rollover (re-issuance) of liabilities. Variable cash flows from those
liabilities are converted to fixed-rate cash flows by entering into receive-
variable, pay-fixed interest rate swaps and receive-variable, pay-fixed
forward-starting interest rate swaps. Citi also hedges variable cash flows from
recognized and forecasted floating-rate assets and origination of short-term
assets. Variable cash flows from those assets are converted to fixed-rate
cash flows by entering into receive-fixed, pay-variable interest rate swaps.
These cash-flow hedging relationships use either regression analysis or
dollar-offset ratio analysis to assess whether the hedging relationships are
highly effective at inception and on an ongoing basis. When certain interest
rates do not qualify as a benchmark interest rate, Citigroup designates the
risk being hedged as the risk of overall changes in the hedged cash flows.
Since efforts are made to match the terms of the derivatives to those of the
hedged forecasted cash flows as closely as possible, the amount of hedge
ineffectiveness is not significant.
Hedging of foreign exchange risk
Citigroup locks in the functional currency equivalent cash flows of long-term
debt and short-term borrowings that are denominated in a currency other
than the functional currency of the issuing entity. Depending on the risk
management objectives, these types of hedges are designated as either cash
flow hedges of only foreign exchange risk or cash flow hedges of both foreign
exchange and interest rate risk, and the hedging instruments used are foreign
exchange cross-currency swaps and forward contracts. These cash flow hedge
relationships use dollar-offset ratio analysis to determine whether the hedging
relationships are highly effective at inception and on an ongoing basis.
Hedging of overall changes in cash flows
Citigroup hedges the overall exposure to variability in cash flows related
to the future acquisition of mortgage-backed securities using “to be
announced” forward contracts. Since the hedged transaction is the gross
settlement of the forward, the assessment of hedge effectiveness is based on
assuring that the terms of the hedging instrument and the hedged forecasted
transaction are the same.
Hedging total return
Citigroup generally manages the risk associated with leveraged loans it
has originated or in which it participates by transferring a majority of its
exposure to the market through SPEs prior to or shortly after funding.
Retained exposures to leveraged loans receivable are generally hedged using
total return swaps.
The amount of hedge ineffectiveness on the cash flow hedges recognized
in earnings for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 is
not significant.