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1.  ''Banking''.
An amount of money given or proposed in relation to a transaction, for example a financial transaction.


Banks' lending and deposit-taking relationships with their customers often give valuable options to the customers, as part of the relationship.
Usually, but not necessarily, quoted on the conventional basis for the market in question.


For example, a customer's right to repay a fixed rate mortgage early.


 
Market prices include foreign exchange rates.
'Option risk' is the risk to the bank which arises from the possibility that the customers might exercise their rights of this kind, to the disadvantage of the bank.
 
 
2.  ''Risk management - real options.''
 
More broadly, the risk to any organisation or individual that another market participant may exercise a real option, causing loss or inconvenience to the organisation or individual exposed to the option risk.
 
 
3.  ''Risk management - financial options.''
 
Any risk associated with a financial option, whether as the writer or the holder of the option.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Banking book]]
* [[Basis risk]]
* [[Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book]]  (IRRBB)
* [[Market Risk in the Banking Book]]  (MRBB)
* [[Option]]
* [[Option writer]]
* [[Prepayment risk]]
* [[Real option]]
* [[Risk management]]


[[Category:The_business_context]]
*[[Bid-offer price]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
* [[Cost]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
*[[Market price]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
*[[Market value]]
[[Category:Risk_reporting]]
*[[Rate]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
*[[Value]]
*[[Yield]]

Revision as of 09:21, 31 May 2017

An amount of money given or proposed in relation to a transaction, for example a financial transaction.

Usually, but not necessarily, quoted on the conventional basis for the market in question.


Market prices include foreign exchange rates.


See also