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 2012
FSR
– September 2012
default funds’). Variation or mark-to-market margin is collected from participants on a daily basis to cover the risk exposure resulting from actual changes in the value of their positions. ... Initial margin is also collected for participants' new
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2012/sep/aus-fin-sys.html
Box D: Trade Compression
20 Apr 2016
FSR
– April 2016
The process, which can be applied to both bilateral and centrally cleared trades, leaves each counterparty's market risk exposure unchanged (or within a pre-defined range). ... Reforms to counterparty credit risk capital requirements provide another
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2016/apr/box-d.html
The Global Financial Environment
8 Oct 2021
FSR
– October 2021
Faster credit growth – particularly in excess of income growth – raises the risk of households becoming excessively leveraged (including because of unrealistic expectations of ongoing capital gains) and/or the quality of ... so they have increased
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2021/oct/global-financial-environment.html
Risk and the Transformation of the Australian Financial System | Conference – 2007
20 Aug 2007
Conferences
This should be supportive of financial stability to the extent that it disperses credit risk more widely. ... While securitisation allows for the transfer of credit risk, the banks' primary objective in securitising housing loans has been to fund more
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2007/ryan-thompson.html
The Australian Financial System
10 Mar 2010
FSR
– March 2010
Given concerns about sovereign credit risk in smaller European countries, it is worth noting that Australian bank exposures to these countries are very small (Table 4). ... Mark-to-market margin has similarly declined. The central counterparties also
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2010/mar/aus-fin-sys.html
Robust Design Principles for Monetary Policy Committees | Conference – 2018
12 Apr 2018
Conferences
Risk management necessarily involves questioning standard assumptions and encouraging outside-the-box thinking. ... Against that background, the experiences of many central banks over recent decades highlight two basic types of risk exposure in monetary
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2018/archer-levin.html
Regulating the New Financial Markets | Conference – 1996
9 Jul 1996
Conferences
The traditional approach has been to focus primarily on the risk to investors. ... Finally, concerns about counterparty risk do not provide a strong case for official regulation.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1996/dale.html
The Global Financial Environment
10 Mar 2013
FSR
– March 2013
Because a prolonged period of low interest rates can result in a build-up of credit risk long before inflation starts to rise, the authorities have instead sought to restrain mortgage ... There has been some media speculation that the Chinese authorities
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2013/mar/global-fin-env.html
A Banker's Perspective on the Future of the Financial System | Conference – 1996
9 Jul 1996
Conferences
Another area of concern grows out of the rapid increase in risk exposure by many of the emerging non-bank players in the financial system. ... Overlaying all of the above is the technological revolution in risk information processing.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1996/ferguson-w.html
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