Interest rate risk
From ACT Wiki
(IRR).
The risk associated with a change in interest rates.
This may take several forms in the treasury context.
For example, and depending on the direction of the change:
- Increasing interest cost
- Falling interest income
- Changing market value of debt, or of pension liabilities
- Differences in competitiveness
- The changing nature of a market when interest rates change
- Secondary effects, especially potentially adverse effects, resulting from any of the primary effects above. For example, potential breaches of interest cover covenants.
Sometimes written 'interest-rate risk'.
Not to be confused with Internal Rate of Return, which is also abbreviated to IRR.
See also
- Asset-liability management
- Cross-currency interest rate swap
- Double-whammy
- Duration
- Exposure
- Fair value interest rate risk
- Financial covenant
- Forward rate agreement
- Guide to risk management
- Internal rate of return
- Interest cover
- Interest rate
- Interest rate cap
- Interest rate collar
- Interest rate exposure
- Interest rate floor
- Interest rate futures
- Interest rate gap
- Interest rate guarantee
- Interest rate option
- Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book (IRRBB)
- Interest rate shock
- Interest rate swap
- IRHP
- Matching
- Pipeline risk
- Portfolio hedging
- Risk-free rate of return
- Risk-free rates
- Shock
- Time bins
- Treasury
