
IMF issues credit derivatives warning
The study quoted figures taken from the Bank of England’s 2001 Financial Stability Review and the 1999/2000 British Bankers Association’s credit derivatives survey. These reports showed that insurance companies, hedge funds and corporates make up 36% of the total protection sellers' market.
Garry Schinasi, the IMF's financial markets stability division chief, and one of the authors of the report, told RiskNews: “There is a new set of sellers of protection that haven’t managed a lot of credit risk [before]. It is possible that they could be mispricing it.”
Schinasi added that this could lead to a greater amount of credit risk being transferred to investors that ultimately lie at the end of the credit chain.
The IMF report also said the leveraged characteristic of most credit derivatives could deepen the effects of credit events. But the IMF acknowledged that the credit derivatives market does have its benefits in controlling credit risk, and has stood up well to the Enron and Argentinian crises.
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