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The purchasing, normally with recourse to the seller, of accounts receivable as a mechanism for providing short-term finance on a continuing basis.
 
The risk that a counterparty will not settle an obligation for full value, either when due or at any time thereafter. 
 
In exchange-for-value settlement systems, the risk is generally defined to include both replacement cost risk and principal risk.
 
 
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A weighted measure reflecting both the maximum possible amount of the credit loss (also known as the credit exposure), and the likelihood of such loss.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Banker's payment]]
* [[Factoring]]
* [[Counterparty risk]]
* [[Vendor finance]]
* [[Covenant]]
* [[Credit default swap]]
* [[Credit derivative]]
* [[Credit exposure]]
* [[Credit risk diversification]]
* [[Capital risk]]
* [[Event risk]]
* [[Exchange-for-value system]]
* [[MCT]]
* [[Pre-settlement risk]]
* [[Price risk]]
* [[Prime bank]]
* [[Principal risk]]
* [[Replacement cost risk]]
* [[Risk mitigation]]
* [[Sovereign risk]]
* [[Putting a limit on losses]]
 
 
===Other links===
[http://www.treasurers.org/node/4351 Credit risk, Will Spinney, ACT 2008]
 
[[Category:Manage_risks]]

Revision as of 21:47, 18 June 2016

The purchasing, normally with recourse to the seller, of accounts receivable as a mechanism for providing short-term finance on a continuing basis.


See also