Credit Risk Overview: Introduction to Credit Risk
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Credit Risk Overview: Introduction to Credit Risk

Intuition Publishing Pty Ltd
Updated Sep 25, 2020

Despite all the innovation and complexity of recent decades, the fundamental business of banks remains the lending of money. The major risk is that of default when the money does not get repaid by customers. Here we describe how credit risk arises and the key factors that influence the size of credit risk exposures.

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