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Default Risk

(1) The chance that a particular interest, principal, or swap payment or set of payments due from an issuer or a counterparty will not be forthcoming on schedule. (2) The cost of a payment default. Different financial transactions have different default probabilities and, because of different magnitudes of associated net cash flows and principal exposures, different costs associated with the same probability of default. See also Default Exposure.

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