Counterparty credit risk
Big US banks hold more Treasuries as swaps collateral
Government securities made up 8.2% of all initial and variation margin at G-Sibs in Q2
The efficiency of the Anderson–Darling test with a limited sample size: an application to backtesting counterparty credit risk internal models
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical evaluation of the Anderson–Darling test when the sample size is limited.
Two US dealers grow appetite for counterparty risk
JP Morgan sees risk weight of portfolio climb to 41.5%
SA-CCR switch cuts leverage of two Japanese banks
Leverage exposures for Nomura and Norinchukin fall ¥4.7 trillion in aggregate
EU banks relax credit terms for OTC trades – ECB
Price and non-price trade conditions likely to ease for most firms in Q3
Optimal posting of collateral with recurrent neural networks
Pierre Henry-Labordère applies neural networks to a control problem approach for managing collateral
As revamp begins, Deutsche’s RWAs for CVA fall
Credit valuation adjustment RWAs down 30% year-on-year
Nordea’s CVA charge drops 34%
CVA requirements are at their lowest level since Q3 2018
Synthetic securitisations and Europe’s capital sweetener
Regulator weighs high-quality label for synthetic deals, but without favourable capital treatment
UK bank RWAs inch up on credit and counterparty risk
Total RWAs stable year-on-year
Derivatives assets surge at eurozone hedge funds
Derivatives assets made up 16% of total hedge fund assets in March
Risk and finance – Better together
Changing regulations and new accounting standards are creating enormous challenges for financial organisations. Thorsten Hein, principal product marketing manager, risk research and quantitative solutions at SAS, explores why, to successfully meet these…
Rival FXPBs scoop up former Citi clients
BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank among those taking on clients axed by the US bank, plus others worried they’ll be next
Podcast: Gregory and Chung on wrong-way risk modelling
Quants discuss a better way to model wrong-way risk
CVA, debt raising said to drive SoftBank CDS trading
Volumes rise as tech giant’s debt spree forces banks to hedge their counterparty exposure
Citi culls HFTs from FXPB client list
HC Technologies, Jump Trading and Virtu Financial among those told to find a new prime broker
Banco Santander’s CVA charge drops 20% in Q1
Three EU G-Sibs cut capital requirements, three increase them
Fed pushes big banks to calculate CVA for CCPs
Banks including JP Morgan and Credit Suisse told to quantify exposure to CCPs for annual stress tests
L&G’s counterparty risk charge almost doubles in two years
Operational and market risk charges also climb at UK group
Allianz’s counterparty risk charge up €102 million in 2018
Total solvency capital requirement down €600 million year-on-year
Wrong-way risk of interest rate instruments
This paper investigates wrong-way risk effects on the pricing of counterparty credit risk for interest rate instruments.
DTCC in talks to clear MarketAxess bond trades
Market-first move could cut platform’s costs and counterparty risks
Morgan Stanley’s CVA charge swells 19% in Q1
Credit valuation adjustment capital charges have decreased at most G-Sibs year-on-year
Top UK banks' CVA charges up 10% in Q1
Barclays' and Standard Chartered's requirements increase over 20% each