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Item 11 — Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Grab Holdings Limited · 20-F · FY 2025 · Period ended Dec 31, 2025
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We are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business. These risks primarily include credit risk, foreign currency risk and interest rate risk. See Note 25 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this report for further details.
Credit Risk
We are exposed to credit risk from our operating activities and from our financing activities, which arises principally from our trade receivables, loans and advances to customers, deposits and cash and cash equivalents. With respect to trade receivables, we are not exposed to a major default risk from a single customer, and we actively monitor and manage credit risk and optimizing the payment process. With respect to our loans and advances to customers, our credit risk mainly pertains to term loans provided to borrowers. We closely monitor credit quality for the loans and advances to manage and evaluate our related exposure to credit risk, and such efforts begin with initial underwriting and continue through to full repayment of a loan or advance. We have developed risk models using detailed information from internal historical experience, including customers’ prior repayment histories with us, to assess customer requests for a loan or advance. We also use delinquency status and trends to assist in making new and ongoing credit decisions, adjust models and plan collection practices and strategies. With respect to our financial instruments, our deposits and cash and cash equivalents are all held with reputable bank and financial institution counterparties.
Foreign Currency Risk
We are exposed to foreign exchange risk on transactional foreign currency risk to the extent that there is a mismatch between the currencies in which sales, purchases, receivables, cash and cash equivalents and borrowings that are denominated in a currency other than the respective functional currencies of our entities, including Singapore Dollars, Indonesian Rupiah, Thai Baht, Malaysian Ringgit, Vietnamese Dong and Philippine Pesos, among other currencies. The functional currencies of our entities are primarily the currency of the country in which the entity operates. The currencies in which these transactions primarily are denominated are also in the currency in which the entity operates. Accordingly, changes in exchange rates are reflected in reported income and loss from our international businesses included in our consolidated statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income. A continued strengthening of the U.S. dollar would therefore reduce reported revenue and expenses from our international businesses included in our consolidated statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income.
Interest on external borrowings is denominated in the currency of the borrowing. Our entities’ external borrowings are generally denominated in currencies that match the cash flows generated by the underlying operations, which is also the currency of the country in which the entity operates.
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Based on the above, we do not believe we are exposed to significant currency transactional foreign currency risk. We may in the future, enter into derivatives or other financial instruments in an attempt to hedge our foreign currency exchange risk. It is difficult to predict the impact hedging activities would have on our results of operations.
Translation Exposure
We are also exposed to foreign exchange rate fluctuations as we translate the financial statements of our subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities into U.S. dollars in consolidation. If there is a change in foreign currency exchange rates, the translation adjustments resulting from the conversion of the financial statements of our subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities into U.S. dollars would result in a gain or loss recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).
Interest Rate Risk
Our main interest rate risk arises from long-term borrowings with variable rates, which expose us to cash flow interest rate risk. Our borrowings at variable rate are mainly denominated in Singapore Dollars, Malaysian Ringgit, Indonesian Rupiah and Thai Baht. The borrowings are periodically contractually repriced and to that extent are also exposed to the risk of future changes in market interest rates. The risk of future changes in market interest rates with regard to variable rate pricing is currently managed via our cash management operations. We intend to reduce gross borrowing balances with excess available cash and minimize exposure to interest rate changes with regard to the borrowings. We manage the deleveraging measures by continuously monitoring the macroeconomic environment and its liquidity position to ensure sufficient funding in meeting our business needs and financial obligations, as well as capital allocation and growth objectives, throughout business cycles.
For the Term Loan B, which we fully repaid in March 2024, a 100 basis point increase in SOFR would have increased consolidated losses by approximately $5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.