Corporates use XVA caps to limit unwind charges

Veolia caps CVA and FVA unwind costs in trades with 10 banks

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Veolia executed its first FVA and CVA cap in 2012

Big corporates have found a new way to reduce the cost of trading derivatives on an uncollateralised basis: pay dealers upfront for a cap on the charges that can accompany an unwind. For the buyer, the cap replaces an unknown cost with a known one, but it further increases the complexity of the business for dealers, which claim the option is impossible to hedge.

Paris-based water, energy and waste giant Veolia is the only company known to have executed the caps, but it claims to have done so

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