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The risk of losses or other adverse effects resulting from a change in a foreign exchange rate, or from other unfavourable changes in relation to a foreign currency.  
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A place for storage.


Examples include:


*A final receipt/payment of a different amount of domestic currency equivalent, than expected when a currency transaction was committed to (transaction risk)
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*A change in asset/liability values in a balance sheet, profit/loss in an income statement (translation risk)
*A change in competitiveness as rates change relative to buyers, suppliers or competitors (economic risk).  


An agent whose primary function is to record securities either physically or electronically and to keep records of the ownership of these securities.


A more complex area of foreign exchange risk concerns contingent, or pre-transaction risk.
More usually spelled ''depositary''.
 
 
Also known as Currency exposure or Foreign exchange risk.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Contingent risk]]
* [[An introduction to debt securities]]
* [[Cross-currency interest rate swap]]
* [[Deposit]]
* [[Currency management]]
* [[Depositary]]
* [[Foreign exchange risk]]
* [[Transaction exposure]]
* [[Translation exposure]]
 
 
===Other links===
[http://www.treasurers.org/node/5281 Currency risk, Will Spinney, ACT 2009]
 
[[Category:Manage_risks]]

Revision as of 11:15, 8 February 2018

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A place for storage.


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An agent whose primary function is to record securities either physically or electronically and to keep records of the ownership of these securities.

More usually spelled depositary.


See also