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Debt issuance rebounded in Q2, reports BIS
Despite continued turmoil in financial markets, borrowing rose sharply in the international debt securities markets over the second quarter, reports the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) latest quarterly review.
Convexity adjustments in inflation-linked derivatives
Dorje Brody, John Crosby and Hongyun Li value several types of inflation-linked derivatives using a multi-factor version of the Hughston (1998) and Jarrow & Yildirim (2003) model. Expressions for the prices of zero-coupon inflation swaps with delayed…
Gamma loss and prepayment
Peter Jackel presents a model for the dynamics of fractional notional losses and prepayments on asset-backed securities for the valuation and risk management of derivatives, including waterfall structures and other structured debt obligations on bespoke…
Let's jump together: pricing credit derivatives
Joao Garcia, Serge Goossens and Wim Schoutens introduce a dynamic multivariate jump-driven model for credit spreads. The model parameters come from a calibration on swaptions and a correlation-matching procedure. The authors apply the model to credit…
Rising above it?
Merrill Lynch's decision to ditch its collateralised debt obligation portfolio in July has been spun as a brave attempt to draw a line under its structured credit losses. But how good is the deal, and does it represent a template for other firms…
Tools of the traders
Technology
The capital ratio conundrum
Regulatory capital
Wary of the IRC
Basel II
Spain reigns
BBVA's chief risk officer, José Sevilla Alverez , talks to Rob Davies
Expect the unexpected
Stress testing
Coming to the crunch
Risk Interdealer Rankings 2008
Towards T+0 reconciliation
The Counterparty Risk Management Policy Group's third major policy statement appeared in early August - and it presents surprisingly radical demands, says David Rowe
Don't follow the herd
Quant funds
A balancing act
Off-Balance-Sheet Vehicles
