Credit risk
Evolving credit
The flexibility of credit default swaps makes them an invaluable tool for arbitrage, speculation or hedging products
Japanese CJ50 index reaches ¥10 billion on first trading day
The CJ50 index that tracks the movement of Japan’s 50 most actively traded credit default swaps started trading today, with volume reaching beyond ¥10 billion ($83 million), according to BNP Paribas.
Isda and BMA propose 35% charge for restructuring risk
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) and the Bond Market Association (BMA) submitted a comment letter today to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in which they argued that, for the sake of capital calculations, loans hedged…
Correlation evidence
Like ratings, default correlation is an area of fierce industry debate. But any fundamental, long-terminvestor searching for fair value in credit correlation will want to understand what the historical dataactually says.
Accord preparations: the rest is yet to come
While the debates have raged for months about many aspects of the proposed Basel II Accord, on some points there has been relative silence, in particular with regard to the seeming overreliance on statistical techniques.
JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley launch Trac-x Japan CDS index
US investment houses JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley are merging their Japanese credit derivatives indexes Janice and MSJ-CDS, respectively, into Trac-x Japan, a new tradable index that tracks the 50 most liquid Japanese credit default swaps (CDS).
S&P to apply stress test to power firms
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is to apply a stress test designed to measure how well power companies can stand price swings in volatile electricity markets. The move is part of the credit rating agency’s effort to combat criticism of rating agency failure to…
Energy firms turn to credit derivatives market
More energy companies are likely to start purchasing credit derivatives as a way of mitigating counterparty credit risk, analysts said at a conference in New York this week. This is partly because spreads on single-name credit default swaps (CDS) of…
Credit risk models enhance link between credit and equity prices, say BIS
The growing use of credit risk models is helping to strengthen the link between credit and equity prices, said the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Market-implied ratings
There has been much debate over the respective merits of credit ratings and market-based indicators. Ludovic Breger, Lisa Goldberg and Oren Cheyette present a new approach that tries to incorporate the benefits of both approaches. Starting with agency…
Correlation evidence
Like ratings, default correlation is an area of fierce industry debate. But any fundamental, long-term investor searching for fair value in credit correlation will want to understand what the historical data actually says. Here, Arnaud de Servigny and…
Cracking correlation
Credit default swaps
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Portfolio selection
Banks exploit debt and equity tie-ups
Credit tech
Class warfare
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A market redeemed
CDOs
Banks struggle with conduits
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Basel II – it’s not all devil in the detail
New angles
Basel II: Time to prepare
Following the publication of the third and final consultation paper, Japan's banks are focusing more seriously on Basel II. With the new requirements set to take effect from 2006, most banks face a critical year ahead.
Bank of England research backs Merton model
Analysts in the Bank of England's domestic finance division believe a Merton model for modelling credit risk is "a useful tool for assessing the riskiness of individual companies".
Lehman and Agricultural Bank of China close synthetic CDO
Lehman Brothers International Europe, the European arm of US investment bank Lehman Brothers, has launched an arbitrage synthetic collateralised debt obligation (CDO) referenced to a $1 billion portfolio of 120 entities that will be managed by the…
Risk USA 2003: Loan managers increasingly rely on credit derivatives, says CIBC's Bennett
Stephen Bennett, global head of portfolio management at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), believes credit derivatives are playing an increasingly important role in the loan market, both as hedging instruments and by helping facilitate mark-to…