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1. ''Capital asset pricing model.''


US Dollars held in time deposits in banks outside the United States.
In the Capital asset pricing model, financial risk means the component of total risk resulting from a firm’s capital structure.  
These banks may be foreign (non-US) owned or branches of US banks abroad.


The more net debt there is in the capital structure, the greater the financial risk.


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Any Eurocurrency deposit, not necessarily denonimated in US dollars.
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The term 'financial risk' is also used more generally to mean the wider risk of uncertain financial outcomes. 
 
For example the risks arising from not knowing the home currency value of a foreign currency receipt in the future, or the uncertainty regarding the size of future interest payments on floating rate borrowings.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Eurocurrency]]
* [[Asset beta]]
* [[International Banking Facilities]]
* [[Business risk]]
* [[TED spread]]
* [[Capital asset pricing model]]
* [[Equity risk]]
* [[Financial asset]]
* [[Financial liability]]
* [[Financial market price risk]]
* [[Financial risk management]]
* [[Guide to risk management]]
* [[Operational risk]]
* [[Return]]
* [[Risk]]
* [[Risk taxonomy]]
* [[Ungeared beta]]
 
 
===Other links===
[http://www.treasurers.org/node/8443  Masterclass: Measuring financial risk, ''Will Spinney'', The Treasurer]
 
[[Category:Manage_risks]]

Revision as of 13:06, 4 August 2019

1. Capital asset pricing model.

In the Capital asset pricing model, financial risk means the component of total risk resulting from a firm’s capital structure.

The more net debt there is in the capital structure, the greater the financial risk.


2.

The term 'financial risk' is also used more generally to mean the wider risk of uncertain financial outcomes.

For example the risks arising from not knowing the home currency value of a foreign currency receipt in the future, or the uncertainty regarding the size of future interest payments on floating rate borrowings.


See also


Other links

Masterclass: Measuring financial risk, Will Spinney, The Treasurer