Company: RILYN
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-007082
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Company: B. Riley Financial, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 statements for recent accounting standards.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

We transact business in various foreign currencies. In countries where the functional currency of the underlying operations has been determined to be the local country’s currency, revenues and expenses of operations outside the United States are translated into United States dollars using average exchange rates while assets and liabilities of operations outside the United States are translated into United States dollars using period-end exchange rates. The effects of foreign currency translation adjustments are included in stockholders’ equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. Transaction gains (losses) are included in selling, general and administrative expenses in our condensed consolidated statements of operations.

Interest Rate Risk

We have exposure to interest rate risk which primarily relates to changes in cost of borrowings as a result of changes in interest rates. We utilize borrowings under our senior notes payable and credit facilities to fund costs and expenses incurred in connection with our acquisitions and operations. Borrowings under our senior notes payable are at fixed interest rates 

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and borrowings under our credit facilities bear interest at a floating rates of interest. As of September 30, 2024, approximately 75% of our debt obligations bore interest at fixed rates and not impacted by changes in interest rates. Our interest expense from variable-rate debt obligations is principally affected by changes in the published SOFR rate in connection with our credit facilities. Our variable-rate debt obligations are principally used to provide financing to our operating businesses which are supported by cash flows from operations for those businesses. The cash flows of such operating businesses are utilized to help to mitigate any increases in interest expense as a result of an increase in interest rates. Our Nomura credit facility is also a variable rate debt obligation which is collateralized by a portfolio of investment assets and certain operating businesses. Increased interest costs on the Nomura facility as a result of a rise in interest rates are partially offset by variable rate investment assets that are securing the facility as well as cash flows from other businesses securing the facility.

Management monitors the composition of debt obligations and debt investments on a periodic basis, as well as projected net interest income, interest coverage, and sensitivity of interest income changes in interest rates. This exposure is also monitored by our risk management group and reviewed periodically in risk committee meetings. If floating rates of interest had increased by 1% during the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the rate increase would have resulted in an increase in interest expense of $4.8 million.