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''Financial maths.''
Prepayment risk is a form of interest rate risk for a financial institution.


(PF).
It arises from the non-contractual early repayment by customers of, for example, fixed rate mortgages.


A perpetuity factor is the fraction 1/r, used when evaluating a fixed perpetuity.


Using this simple formula assumes a constant periodic cost of capital (r) for all periods from now to infinity.
The financial institution therefore has an interest rate exposure for the - as yet unknown - prepayments by customers of its fixed interest rate product.


Sometimes known as the Perpetuity formula.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Annuity factor]]
* [[Interest rate risk]]
* [[Growing perpetuity factor]]
* [[Pipeline risk]]
* [[Perpetuity]]
* [[RMBS]]


[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]

Revision as of 14:02, 13 August 2016

Prepayment risk is a form of interest rate risk for a financial institution.

It arises from the non-contractual early repayment by customers of, for example, fixed rate mortgages.


The financial institution therefore has an interest rate exposure for the - as yet unknown - prepayments by customers of its fixed interest rate product.


See also