Credit derivatives
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Investors look to derivatives on fixed income exchange-traded funds to manage credit risk exposure
Majority of EU funds’ CDSs are ‘naked’ exposures
Of more than 4,000 CDS positions assessed by Esma researchers, 71% were uncovered
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Cleared CDS volumes surged in H1 – BIS
CDX cleared contracts outstanding leapt 35% in H1
Credit swap portfolios contracted at systemic US banks in Q2
Sold notionals fell 8% over the three months to end-June
Barclays led UK banks in growing CDS book through Covid shock
Dealer saw credit derivatives notionals balloon £58.1 billion over the first half
XVA traders have no time to rest on laurels
Markets have calmed, but they may not be out of the woods yet
CVA desks arm themselves for the next crisis
March’s volatility forces dealers to fine-tune hedging strategies
ABN Amro crushes CVA charge with index hedges in H1
Risk-weighted assets for CVA drops 48% in six months to end-June
Stanford’s Duffie shakes up SOFR credit race with AXI index
Academics propose new credit index that ditches Libor tenors for a single funding spread
Common domain model needs infrastructure push, says Barclays
Bank wants market infrastructures to drive adoption of Isda CDM
Ice Europe’s CDS unit hit by almost 1,000 IM breaches in Q1
Peak breach was €100 million in size
Volatility scaling flops in credit alt risk premia
Strategies miss recovery from March plunge, prompting rethink on speed of mean reversion
Equity derivatives aided BlackRock funds in March
Flagship Strategic Income Opportunities fund posted $253 million in net derivatives gains at height of Covid crunch
Recent defaults lead to record credit derivatives payouts
CDS auctions have yielded historically low recovery rates this year, meaning swap sellers have had to pay more than normal
Sold CDS notionals climbed 16% at top US banks in Q1
Net fair value of credit protection positions vaults to $5.3 billion
Cleared sovereign CDS volumes build as pandemic spreads
South Korea and Italy CDS vols dominate Ice Clear Credit and Ice Clear Europe, respectively
CDX volumes roar upward on coronavirus panic
Notional traded volumes hit multi-year highs in each of the last three weeks
iTraxx volumes spike amid market panic
Volumes of Ice-cleared index contracts more than four times higher than average
The UK’s path to EU equivalence: détente or detour?
Race to meet post-Brexit cross-border trading requirements will go down to the wire
At US G-Sibs, rates derivatives notionals the lowest since 2014
Banks cut interest rate swaps notionals by -18% year-on-year
CDX on junk bonds jumped 65% in H1 2019
Notionals to which CCPs were counterparty increased +85%
EU derivatives markets highly concentrated
CCPs hold 41% of interest rate derivatives notional exposures
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