Credit default swaps
At Wells Fargo, derivatives exposures climb $13bn in Q3
Portfolio shifted further into-the-money in the third quarter
Structural snags frustrate STS for synthetics
Curbs on excess spread and collateral stymie route to ‘high-quality’ signifier
LCH to cut jump-to-default margin for cleared CDS
Move could bring margin for cleared CDS closer to bilateral trades, but mismatch remains
Chinese banks look at swaptions pricing
Switch to market rate for loans prompts lenders to explore hedging tools
Best CVA practices in Japan
At a recent roundtable in Tokyo, banks and regulators discussed progress on credit valuation adjustment (CVA). While, in many respects, the work towards implementing best practices in the country is on track, challenges remain in resourcing and…
US clearers move to dole out losses besides default
ICC wants members to chip in on investment and custodial losses; the OCC, on the whole op risk enchilada
Study of correlation impact on credit default swap margin using a GARCH–DCC-copula framework
In this paper, the authors establish generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity–dynamic conditional correlation (GARCH–DCC) and constant conditional correlation (CCC) copula model frameworks to study time-varying correlation among credit…
CDS fix seeks support for January lift-off
Manufactured defaults protocol opens on September 13, forcing users to consider valuation impact
Most active CDS users get biggest savings – research
CFTC economists see benefits to having many counterparties since move to Sef trading
Swaps data: Fed’s change of tack on rates fuels volume rise
Cleared dollar rates jump by half year-on-year, as LCH market share tightens
An efficient portfolio loss model
This paper develops a parsimonious model for evaluating portfolio credit derivatives dependent on aggregate loss.
Synthetic securitisations and Europe’s capital sweetener
Regulator weighs high-quality label for synthetic deals, but without favourable capital treatment
Derivatives assets surge at eurozone hedge funds
Derivatives assets made up 16% of total hedge fund assets in March
Podcast: Gregory and Chung on wrong-way risk modelling
Quants discuss a better way to model wrong-way risk
CVA wrong-way risk: calibration using a quanto CDS basis
Tsz-Kin Chung and Jon Gregory calibrate wrong-way risk with the help of quanto CDS values
CVA, debt raising said to drive SoftBank CDS trading
Volumes rise as tech giant’s debt spree forces banks to hedge their counterparty exposure
Some EU funds leveraged more than 500% using CDS
1,337 funds held €387 billion of CDS notionals at end-2016
CDS sold by US banks down $55bn in Q1
JP Morgan cut CDS notionals the most, shedding $36.8 billion from its portfolio
The fair basis
Wujiang Lou remodels credit arbitrage by introducing funding and capital costs
German CDS switch creates credit-linked note mismatch
Note issuers fear losses after relabelling of swap contracts creates subordination discrepancy
Final FRTB tweak ‘will kill correlation trading’, say dealers
Some European banks plan to lobby ECB for relief when rules are transposed to local law
Swaps data: IM grows in listed and OTC markets
Data shows fourth-quarter jump in IM across all product groups and after-effects of Nasdaq losses
SEC may allow wider cross-margining of single-name CDS
Banks want to cross-margin single-name CDS against options, indexes and cash products