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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 with credit default swaps (CDS) that do not protect against restructuring have restructuring risk equal to 35% of their default risk.

The first draft of Basel II did not allow any capital relief for loans hedged with CDS without restructuring protection, but the Committee changed its stance in its third consultative paper (CP3) in May, and asked for industry input regarding a fair charge for restructuring risk.

"[We provided] an estimate of how much capital being exposed to restructuring risk and being hedged to other types

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