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A patent cliff is a sudden and substantial drop in sales, on the expiry of a patent.
Prepayment risk is a form of interest rate risk for a financial institution.
 
It arises from the non-contractual early repayment by customers of, for example, fixed rate mortgages.
 
 
The financial institution therefore has an interest rate exposure for the - as yet unknown - prepayments by customers of its fixed interest rate product.


Patent cliffs are particularly significant in the pharmaceutical industry.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Intellectual property]]
* [[Extension risk]]
* [[Patent]]
* [[Interest rate risk]]
* [[Pharma]]
* [[Option risk]]
* [[Pharmaceuticals]]
* [[Pipeline risk]]
* [[Trademark]]
* [[Prepayment]]
* [[RMBS]]


[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]

Revision as of 14:39, 2 November 2016

Prepayment risk is a form of interest rate risk for a financial institution.

It arises from the non-contractual early repayment by customers of, for example, fixed rate mortgages.


The financial institution therefore has an interest rate exposure for the - as yet unknown - prepayments by customers of its fixed interest rate product.


See also