The risk that, in a foreign exchange transaction, one party will pay out the currency it has sold – in this case: DEM – is paid out. However, the contracting party is not in a position to deliver the purchased currency – in this case: USD – also to deliver (the danger of loss in foreign exchange trading that one party will deliver foreign exchange but the counterparty will fail to bring its end of the contract). – See foreign exchange forward, settlement risk, Herstatt default, matching, quanto, rollover risk, swap transaction,
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