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Item 11 — Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Tencent Music Entertainment Group · 20-F · FY 2025 · Period ended Dec 31, 2025
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Interest rate risk
Other than term deposits with initial terms of over three months and cash and cash equivalents, we have no other significant interest-bearing assets. During the year ended December 31, 2025, our exposure to changes in interest rates is attributable to our notes payable issued in September 2020, which carried at fixed rates and do not expose us to cash flow interest-rate risk. Accordingly, we do not anticipate any significant impact on our financial performance resulting from changes in interest rates.
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Foreign exchange risk
Substantially all of our revenues are denominated in Renminbi. The Renminbi is not freely convertible into foreign currencies for capital account transactions. The value of the Renminbi against the U.S. dollar and other currencies is affected by changes in China’s political and economic conditions and by China’s foreign exchange policies, among other things. In July 2005, the PRC regulators changed the decades-old policy of pegging the value of the Renminbi to the U.S. dollar, and the Renminbi appreciated more than 20% against the U.S. dollar over the following three years. Between July 2008 and June 2010, this appreciation subsided and the exchange rate between the Renminbi and the U.S. dollar remained within a narrow band. Since June 2010, the Renminbi has fluctuated against the U.S. dollar, at times significantly and unpredictably. The Renminbi appreciated approximately by 3% against U.S. dollar in 2023, depreciated approximately 3% against U.S. dollar in 2024, and appreciated approximately by 4% against the U.S. dollar in 2025. In addition, since October 1, 2016, the RMB has joined the International Monetary Fund’s basket of currencies that make up the Special Drawing Right, along with the U.S. dollar, the Euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound. With the development of the foreign exchange market and progress towards interest rate liberalization and Renminbi internationalization, the PRC regulators may in the future announce further changes to the exchange rate system and there is no guarantee that the RMB will not appreciate or depreciate significantly in value against the U.S. dollar in the future. 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.
To date, we have not entered into any hedging transactions in an effort to reduce our exposure to foreign currency exchange risk. To the extent that we need to convert U.S. dollars into Renminbi for our operations, appreciation of Renminbi against the U.S. dollar would reduce the Renminbi amount we receive from the conversion. Conversely, if we decide to convert Renminbi into U.S. dollars for the purpose of making payments for dividends on our ordinary shares or ADSs, servicing our outstanding debt, or for other business purposes, appreciation of the U.S. dollar against the Renminbi would reduce the U.S. dollar amounts available to us.
We have performed sensitivity analysis based on the net exposure to each of the exposure arising from U.S. dollar and RMB at end of each reporting period. As of December 31, 2025, the impact on the post-tax profit of the Group arising from a reasonable change in the foreign exchange rates of U.S. dollar and RMB is immaterial and therefore no quantitative impact of the sensitivity analysis is presented for foreign exchange risk.
Inflation risk
Since our inception, inflation in China has not materially impacted our results of operations. According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the year-over-year percent changes in the consumer price index for December 2023, 2024 and 2025 were a decrease of 0.3%, an increase of 0.1% and an increase of 0.8% respectively. Although we have not in the past been materially affected by inflation since our inception, we can provide no assurance that we will not be affected in the future by higher rates of inflation in China.