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Item 11 — Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Lightinthebox Holding Co., Ltd. · 20-F · FY 2025 · Period ended Dec 31, 2025
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Interest Rate Risk
Our exposure to interest rate risk primarily relates to the interest income generated by our bank deposits, which are unrestricted as to withdrawal and use, and the interest expense incurred by our short-term borrowings. We have not used any derivative financial instruments to manage our interest risk exposure. Interest-earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk. We have not been exposed to material risks due to changes in interest rates. However, our future interest expense may increase and our future interest income may be lower than expected due to changes in market interest rates.
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Foreign Exchange Risk
Our reporting currency is U.S. dollar, however the functional currency of some of our subsidiaries is generally the applicable local currency. Therefore, the net revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities of some of our subsidiaries are translated from their functional currencies into U.S dollars. Fluctuations in the values of U.S. dollar affect the reported amounts of net revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities. Foreign currency exchange differences which arise on the translation of the subsidiaries’ balance sheets into U.S. dollars are recorded as other comprehensive income / (loss), net of tax in accumulated other comprehensive income or loss within stockholders’ equity.
The value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies may fluctuate and is affected by, among other things, changes in political and economic conditions and the foreign exchange policy adopted by the PRC government. It is difficult to predict how market forces or PRC or U.S. government policy may impact the exchange rate between the Renminbi and the U.S. dollar in the future. There remains significant international pressure on the PRC government to adopt a more flexible currency policy, which could result in greater fluctuations of the Renminbi against the U.S. dollar.
We also have exposure to changes in foreign currency exchange rates associated with transactions which are undertaken by our subsidiaries in currencies other than their functional currency. Such transactions include sales denominated in currencies other than the functional currencies of the selling entities as our revenue are generated from more than 100 countries and regions using different currencies, and expenditures denominated in currencies other than the functional currencies of the purchase entities. As a result, we have been impacted by changes in foreign currency exchange rates and may be impacted for the foreseeable future when we settle or remeasure the monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies that are not the local currency resulting from the above-mentioned sales, purchase and other transactions.
We considered the historical trends in foreign currency exchange rates and determined that it is reasonably possible that adverse changes in foreign currency exchange rates of 10% for all currencies could be experienced in the near-term. These changes were applied to our total monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than our local currencies at the balance sheet date to compute the impact these changes would have had on our net income before income taxes. These changes would have resulted in a gain or loss of $0.3 million at December 31, 2025, assuming no foreign currency hedging.