Credit risk
Loan portfolio value
Using a conditional independence framework, Oldrich Vasicek derives a useful limiting form for the portfolio loss distribution with a single systematic factor. He then derives a risk-neutral distribution suitable for traded portfolios, and shows how…
The pension threat to credit quality
Pension deficits
Tied up in red tape
Spain focus
Down the corridor
Range accrual notes
Setting out a strategy
Case study – Kepco
SMBC launches synthetic deal
New angles
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Lehman closes $500 million Asian investment-grade arbitrage synthetic CDO
Lead manager Lehman Brothers said today it has closed a $500 million five-year Asian investment-grade arbitrage synthetic collateralised debt obligation (CDO) through special-purpose vehicles Asia IG CDO Limited and Asia IG CDO LLC. The portfolio manager…
The luck of them
Ireland has become well-known as the home for establishing offshore hedge funds, thanks to its specialist listing regime
Japan’s SMBC expects to issue synthetic CLO in early December
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is preparing to launch a synthetic balance-sheet collateralised loan obligation (CLO) referenced on ¥500 billion worth of loans extended to 1,500 Japanese small to medium-sized companies.
A question of priorities
Japan's banks are aware of the need to prepare for Basel II, but it is just one of a number of urgent issues that need to be resolved in the Japanese banking sector.
Loan hedgers shy away from CDS market
Despite a surge in European lending activity during the past three months, many banks have decided not to hedge their risk with credit default swaps (CDSs), according to research by Morgan Stanley.
Isda reports 75% increase in collateral use for derivatives trades
Collateral use in over-the-counter derivatives transactions and related margined activities such as repos and structured products increased 75% from $250 billion in 2001 to $437 billion this year, said the International Swaps and Derivatives Association…
Data hurdles
The risk management rumour mill has been buzzing in recent weeks with the story that US banking regulators have told the senior management of the country’s 30 largest banks that they will be expected to implement the advanced internal ratings-based (IRB)…
Credit ratings come into FX focus
Credit ratings are becoming increasingly significant to foreign exchange market players, with downgrades increasing in the current economic downturn, market participants told RiskNews ' sister publication FX Week .
Unsystematic credit risk
Although Basel has shifted its treatment of unsystematic credit risk from the first, capital rules pillar (where it was called the ‘granularity adjustment’) to the second, supervisory pillar of the forthcoming Accord, this issue is of great practical…
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Sponsor's article > Credit derivatives: will the market keep expanding?
This article aims to give a brief overview of some of the main trends in the credit derivatives market and also proposes to analyse some of the underlying reasons why this market is experiencing such a boom.
An overwhelming problem
Introduction
Reacting to spreads
Credit derivatives
Fighting credit risk demons
Credit risk
A question of priorities
Basel Accord
Managing housing loan risk
Mortgage-backed securities
Internal risk rating systems for banks
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