Search: credit risk/exposure
RBA Glossary definition for credit risk/exposure
credit risk/exposure – The risk that a counterparty will not settle an obligation for full value, either when due or thereafter. In 'exchange-for-value' systems, the risk is generally defined to include replacement risk (the risk of having to replace a contract at a potentially unfavourable price) and principal risk.
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The Australian Financial System
10 Sep 2009
FSR
– September 2009
Despite the recovery in activity, the scale of risk exposure assumed by the central counterparties supporting the equities and futures markets has declined. ... One measure of risk exposure is the value of margin held by the central counterparties in
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2009/sep/aus-fin-sys.html
Limiting Foreign Exchange Exposure through Hedging: The Australian Experience
22 Aug 2006
RDP
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This type of derivative is therefore primarily used to hedge balance sheet exposure on debt securities and the associated transaction risk on interest payments. ... Another factor may be that longer-term derivatives are seen by banks as a higher credit
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2006/pdf/rdp2006-09.pdf
Australian Banks’ Activities in Derivatives Markets: Products and Risk-Management Practices
5 Feb 2003
Bulletin
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Inaddition, senior management in most banksreceived regular reports outlining the bank’smarket and credit risk exposures. ... Forms of credit risk enhancement, otherthan netting, are not widely used by Australianbanks.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/1994/sep/pdf/bu-0994-1.pdf
Financial Stability Review
18 Nov 2022
FSR
- October 2021
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https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2021/oct/pdf/financial-stability-review-2021-10.pdf
OTC Derivatives Reforms and the Australian Cross-currency Swap Market
24 Jun 2013
Bulletin
– June 2013
Reforms to improve the management of counterparty credit risk in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets are underway globally. A key pillar of the reforms is the migration of these markets to central counterparties (CCPs), while higher capital
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2013/jun/7.html
Financial Stability Review September 2013
24 Sep 2013
FSR
September 2013
PDF
1605KB
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2013/sep/pdf/0913.pdf
Non-dealer Clearing of Over-the-counter Derivatives
20 Mar 2014
Bulletin
– March 2014
In 2009, the G20 leaders agreed that all standardised over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives should be cleared through central counterparties (CCPs). Accordingly, an increasing proportion of OTC derivatives are now centrally cleared, particularly where
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2014/mar/9.html
Recent Developments in Collateralised Debt Obligations in Australia
13 Nov 2007
Bulletin
PDF
90KB
Reserve Bank of Australia Bulletin November 2007
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2007/nov/pdf/bu-1107-1.pdf
Non-dealer Clearing of Over-the-counter Derivatives
27 Mar 2014
Bulletin
PDF
572KB
Reserve Bank of Australia Bulletin March 2014
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2014/mar/pdf/bu-0314-9.pdf
Derivatives – Bank Activities and Supervisory Responses
2 Jun 2003
Bulletin
PDF
53KB
Sometimes, where the bankchooses to be the risk ‘acceptor’, this will leaveit with a risk exposure; in other cases, the bank. ... financial institutions on currentexposures to derivatives, the potential forfurther exposure to risk should market
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/1995/may/pdf/bu-0595-1.pdf