Credit default swaps
Trading down the slopes
The credit derivatives market is growing at an impressive rate, with the credit default swap (CDS) being the most popular instrument. This article is relevant for the trading of CDSs and bond portfolios. Mascia Bedendo, Lara Cathcart, Lina El-Jahel and…
Unbiased risk-neutral loss distributions
Luigi Vacca introduces entropy maximisation (ME) to derive portfolio loss probabilities that are consistent with standard tranche prices on a credit default swap index. Tranche prices that are calculated using ME are free of arbitrage. A numerical…
Thomson launches online CDS market-place
US market operator Thomson TradeWeb has opened its TradeWeb CDS online credit default swap market-place for business, with eight dealers already members.
Auto CDS trades still dominate US market
The US credit default swap market continues to be dominated by contracts based on the debt protection of automobile and auto parts manufacturers, indicating the unpheaval caused by the downgrades of Ford and GM in May have not yet died away.
Eurex to launch CDS index product
Eurex has licensed International Index Company's European iTraxx indexes in preparation for the launch of an exchange-traded contract based on the European credit default swap (CDS) index before the end of the year.
Autos still most active CDS in US and Europe
The effect of Standard and Poor's downgrading the credit ratings of debt owned by Ford and General Motors two months ago is still washing through the credit default swap (CDS) market.
Modelling counterparty credit exposure for credit default swaps
Modelling counterparty credit exposure for credit derivatives is more complicated than for non-credit products, since the reference credit and counterparty can exhibit positive default correlation. Here, Christian Hille, John Ring and Hideki Shimamoto…
TriOptima run eliminates $880 billion in surplus CDS
Five software runs conducted this month by the Scandinavian service company TriOptima have resolved $880 billion in outstanding single-name and index credit default swaps (CDS).
Modelling counterparty credit exposure for credit default swaps
Modelling counterparty credit exposure for credit derivatives is more complicated than for non-credit products, since the reference credit and counterparty can exhibit positive default correlation. Here, Christian Hille, John Ring and Hideki Shimamoto…
Modelling counterparty credit exposure for credit default swaps
Modelling counterparty credit exposure for credit derivatives is more complicated than for non-credit products, since the reference credit and counterparty can exhibit positive default correlation. Here, Christian Hille, John Ring and Hideki Shimamoto…
Jumps as components in the pricing of credit and equity products
The equity and credit markets have become increasingly integrated over recent years. This has increased the need for models and tools that allow traders to hedge their risk simultaneously in the two markets. Here, Daniel Bloch presents an approach that…
Market models for CDS
In August 2004, Risk published an article on the pricing of credit default swap (CDS) options entitled A measure of survival by Phillip Schönbucher. Here, Damiano Brigo provides an alternative derivation of the CDS option pricing formula based on Cox
A measure of survival
Credit derivatives
CDS options emerge in Asia
Credit default swap (CDS) options on Asian names have emerged on broker screens, with two CDS option trades referenced to Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa trading through brokerage firm Icap in early June.
BNP Paribas tailor-makes Japanese CDS index
French bank BNP Paribas has created a sub-index to its CJ50 index of the 50 most liquid Japanese credit default swaps (CDS). Called CJ Flex, the sub-index is referenced on about 30 investment-grade credits, worth a total notional amount of more than ¥10…
All your hedges in one basket
Leif Andersen, Jakob Sidenius and Susanta Basu present new techniques for single-tranche CDO sensitivity and hedge ratio calculations. Using factorisation of the copula correlation matrix, discretisation of the conditional loss distribution followed by a…
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…
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).
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).
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…
Japanese credit default swaps trading centres around convertibles
Most of the trading in Japan’s credit default swaps market centred around names with outstanding convertible bonds in quiet trading this week.
Isda muddies debt waters
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) has finally released its 2003 credit derivatives definitions, which take effect on March 17.
Sponsor's article > Credit derivatives: will the market keep expanding?
This article aims to give a brief overview of some of the main trends in the credit derivatives market and also proposes to analyse some of the underlying reasons why this market is experiencing such a boom.