The point at which credit risk becomes exchange rate redenomination risk is ambiguous.

The major problem with the new credit line is that it runs the risk of unduly dividing developing countries into two categories, with significant additional risks for the latter.

Credit risk is best hedged through diversification across uncorrelated credits.

Credit risk in the mortgage market is being assumed by the government, and market risk by the Fed.

But, if more risk builds up through continued expansion of shadow credit, this risk buffer may become inadequate.

Many adjuvants carry a significant risk of serious complications.

While credit expansion can offset this to some degree, increased production based on credit expansion inevitably leads to large scale financial risk.

Indeed, a chain of financial intermediaries now earn fees without bearing the credit risk.

Given this risk, Kyong hui s poor health is a significant hindrance.

This risk was highlighted by the recent downgrade of Italy s credit rating by Standard Poor s.

In the past, banks kept loans and mortgages on their books, retaining the credit risk.

They range from subdued bank lending to unusually high risk aversion, and from discredited credit vehicles to the withdrawal of some institutions from credit intermediation altogether.

It was widely felt that modern secured credit laws could have a significant impact on the availability and the cost of credit and thus on international trade.

It was widely felt that modern secured credit laws could have a significant impact on the availability and the cost of credit and thus on international trade.

With the government assuming credit risk, mortgages become as safe as government bonds of comparable maturity.

But there is also a significant risk of political misuse of such information.

This would, in its turn, allow banks and other lenders to better assess enterprise risks using modern ICT based techniques for credit risk assessment and credit scoring.

Similarly, positioning the IMF as a general risk insurer by introducing precautionary credit lines above normal access limits would be compatible neither with its mission to provide financial assistance on deliberately non risk adjusted terms nor with the current system of refinancing short term Fund credit through risk free official reserves.

Little wonder, then, that we are now witnessing a significant correction in equity, credit, and commodities markets.

Even if this sounds unfair, it is logical to expect rating agencies, which had been lax in evaluating credit risk, now to be rigorous in assessing all forms of risk, including sovereign risk.

In other words, the Fed will use regulatory instruments to control credit growth, risk taking, and leverage.

And it's significant, isn't it? So you want to risk your life for it.

(c) hazardous activity means an activity which involves a risk of causing significant harm

Clarifying ultimate responsibility for credit quality and risk would also reduce intermediation costs by eliminating the need to resort to informal channels, such as credit guarantee and trust companies.

Innovative financial instruments such as derivatives and credit default swaps enabled the distribution of risk throughout the economy.

Imperfect information and difficulties in monitoring firms pose significant obstacles to idealized risk sharing instruments.

Investors thus assumed that they did not need to assess the credit risk of eurozone countries (national) public debt.

The immediate causes are well known. They range from subdued bank lending to unusually high risk aversion, and from discredited credit vehicles to the withdrawal of some institutions from credit intermediation altogether.

Like banks, all these financial institutions are subject to liquidity or rollover risk the risk of going belly up if their creditors do not rollover their short term credit lines.

However, despite their significant contributions to employment, SMEs have traditionally faced difficulty in obtaining finance both through credit and equity arrangements.

A risk management approach can make significant contributions to defining and implementing government policies in this area.

(c) The risk of significant harm to the environment and the availability of means of preventing such harm, or minimizing the risk thereof or restoring the environment

There is now a serious risk of a systemic meltdown in US financial markets as huge credit and asset bubbles collapse.

Germany will look like a better credit risk, thereby allowing it to fund its current budget deficits more easily and cheaply.

(a) The degree of risk of significant transboundary harm and of the availability of means of preventing such harm, or minimizing the risk thereof or repairing the harm

For example, much of the Horn of Africa (particularly Somalia), Mali, and Guinea Bissau carry significant political risk.

Significant progress has been made in refining and disseminating a standard methodology for conducting threat and risk assessments.

This significant percentage calls for an examination of the internal mechanisms used by CIAT to evaluate risk reports.

Meanwhile, prolonged low interest rates contributed to a chase for yield in the financial sector that resulted in disregard of credit risk.

Insurance companies and pension funds, on the other hand, have limited capacity for credit risk, but more for market and liquidity risks.

Investment banks and credit rating agencies believed in financial alchemy the notion that significant value could be created by slicing and dicing securities.

In most developing countries, financial service providers are not yet in a position to use modern credit risk management techniques to assess borrowers' risk and thus competitively provide capital, particularly trade finance, to enterprises.

(a) Risk of causing significant transboundary harm includes risks taking the form of a high probability of causing significant transboundary harm and a low probability of causing disastrous transboundary harm

But, as local government debt grows, Chinese banks have begun to regard real estate and local financing platforms as a major credit risk.

Credit rating agencies, institutional investors, and asset managers are encouraged to see how such factors can be incorporated into their own risk models.