Glossary

Updated 1 April 2019

This glossary offers definitions of technical terms commonly used in the BIS Quarterly Review.

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risk transfer

Technique for transferring credit risk from the immediate counterparty to a guarantor. Outward risk transfers reallocate claims out of the country of the immediate counterparty. Inward risk transfers reallocate claims into the country of the guarantor.

Updated: 11 Dec 2016
risk transfer

Technique for transferring credit risk from the immediate counterparty to a guarantor. Outward risk transfers reallocate claims out of the country of the immediate counterparty. Inward risk transfers reallocate claims into the country of the guarantor.

Updated: 11 Dec 2016