1. Credit risk can lead to insolvency for financial institutions because:
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5. A Loan losses are charged off against equity and large loan losses could wipe out a banks equity capital.
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7. B One loan loss typically leads to many more and thus wipes out a bank's assets. 
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9. C Credit risk is only present when there is substantial liquidity and interest rate risk.
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11. D There is nothing a bank can do to measure credit risk and therefore they are subject to random extreme loss events.

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