credit risk

credit risk definition - finance
The risk that a party to a loan, trade, or financial transaction will not be able to pay for the transaction or repay the loan at maturity.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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