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Prepayment risk is a form of interest rate risk for a financial institution.
''Accounting''.  
 
Amounts owing to the business as a result of paying in advance for services.
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.
 


A prepayment is a form of asset, because it represents benefits (in the form of valuable services) that the business is entitled to receive in the future, in consideration for cash that the business has already paid out.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Interest rate risk]]
* [[Accrual]]
* [[Pipeline risk]]
* [[RMBS]]


[[Category:Manage_risks]]

Revision as of 14:20, 23 October 2012

Accounting. Amounts owing to the business as a result of paying in advance for services.

A prepayment is a form of asset, because it represents benefits (in the form of valuable services) that the business is entitled to receive in the future, in consideration for cash that the business has already paid out.

See also