Credit risk
Spotlight on exposure
The pricing of derivatives credit charges and risk management of counterparty credit risk portfolios pose many challenges. Julian Keenan reviews the approaches available and makes some recommendations
Credit pricing principles
In the wake of the financial crisis, some dealers acknowledged they were lax in pricing credit into derivatives trades, and pledged to be more attentive in future. With confidence now returning to the market, will competitive pressures overrule these…
Trouble brewing
Despite early signs the US recession may be over, the short-term future for many of the country’s small and medium-sized banks looks grim as they struggle to deal with mounting losses on whole loan portfolios. By Rob Davies
Conflict's end
The second phase of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's collateral dispute resolution protocol prescribes a market polling mechanism for settling disputes involving illiquid and complex transactions. How will the market poll work and…
Sponsored statement: Using collateral management to address credit risk issues
Omgeo outlines the challenges being faced by collateral managers since the collapse of Lehman Brothers 12 months ago, and how these challenges to standardisation and automation can bring the collateralising community together
Sponsored statement: Growth in complex times
Continuing our focus on derivatives collateral management, this month we talk to Mark Higgins and Scott Linden from BNY Mellon, about the latest initiatives around derivatives collateral management and their vision for the future of the market
A state of flux
Efforts to improve the risk architecture for the derivatives business in Asia appear more muted than elsewhere, with many regulators in the region taking a wait-and-see approach towards central counterparty. But, as Duncan Wood reports, there are some…
US and English courts on potential collision course over Lehman structures
Legal battles over a series of collapsed structured finance transactions in which a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers was the swap counterparty could produce divergent opinions from US and English courts, causing far-reaching consequences for trustees and…
Fitch survey reports improved investor sentiment
After two years of turmoil, the credit markets are showing signs of recovery, according to respondents to Fitch Ratings' latest quarterly European senior credit investor survey.
Conflict's end
The second phase of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's collateral dispute resolution protocol prescribes a market polling mechanism for settling disputes involving illiquid and complex transactions. How will the market poll work and…