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Risk-Free Rate.


The practice where customer trades are executed internally within a brokerage or through intermediaries rather than through an exchange.  
The abbreviation 'RFR' usually refers to risk-free benchmark interest rates, such as SONIA.


The brokerage keeps any money it may make on the spread (the difference between the purchase price and the sale price).
Also known as ''near'' risk-free rates, recognising that such rates are never entirely risk-free.




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Theoretically risk free rates of ''investment'' return, for example in the Capital asset pricing model, are more often designated by 'Rf' or 'rf'.


Netting of transactions within a group of businesses, thereby reducing the number and cost of external transactions.


==See also==
*[[Capital asset pricing model]]
*[[RFR WG]]
*[[Risk-free rate of return]]
*[[Risk-free rates]]
*[[SONIA]]


== See also ==
[[Category:Corporate_financial_management]]
* [[Internalisation risk]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
* [[Spread]]

Revision as of 18:33, 1 December 2018

Risk-Free Rate.

The abbreviation 'RFR' usually refers to risk-free benchmark interest rates, such as SONIA.

Also known as near risk-free rates, recognising that such rates are never entirely risk-free.


Theoretically risk free rates of investment return, for example in the Capital asset pricing model, are more often designated by 'Rf' or 'rf'.


See also