Credit valuation adjustment (CVA)
One bad apple: default risk at CCPs
One clearing member's disproportionately large position increases the credit risk for all CCP members
US sidetracks bid to end European CVA exemption
Fed’s change to SA-CCR capital renews EU industry calls to preserve carve-out
Santander’s CVA charge up 15% in Q3
Other eurozone G-Sibs see their CVA requirements fall
Credit valuation adjustment wrong-way risk in a Gaussian copula model
In this paper, we present an analytical expression for CVA with WWR under the assumption of the lognormally distributed trade value.
New CVA regime to hike affected RWAs fivefold at EU banks
Systemically important lenders face 622% increase in CVA RWAs; but effect could be less if existing exemptions are carried over
Smaller Japan banks set to adopt CVA accounting
IFRS convergence levels playing field as regional banks start to price in credit risk
Competitive differentiation – Reaping the benefits of XVA centralisation
A forum of industry leaders discusses the latest developments in XVA and the strategic, operational and technological challenges of derivatives valuation in today’s environment, including the key considerations for banks looking to move to a standardised…
StanChart’s CVA charge jumps 39% in Q3
CVA accounts for an ever-increasing portion of the bank’s total counterparty credit risk
Lloyds’ counterparty credit risk charge rises £60m in Q3
Charge for mark-to-market changes to derivatives increases 10%
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…
In the balance redux
Mats Kjaer developes a dynamic balance-sheet pricing model for valuation adjustments
UK banks accelerate RWA increases in Q2
Market and operational RWAs return to growth after shrinking in Q1
Basel III heralds wild CVA capital swings
Minimum required capital for CVA to climb 64% for large banks, but some banks will see falls of up to 67%
European FRTB proposals spark XVA overload fears
Banks warn of overly complex revaluation process and heightened risk of backtest fails
JP Morgan’s CVA charge jumps $249m in Q2
All US G-Sibs post higher CVA capital requirements for the quarter
Top UK banks cut CVA charges by 9% in Q2
Standard Chartered is only outlier among big five to see capital requirement rise
First-half trading revenues at US G-Sibs increase by a third year-on-year
Income from interest rate exposures more than tripled on H1 2018, while equity revenues increased 17%
Singapore banks begin to phase in XVA
DBS, OCBC and UOB start using valuation adjustments, but face hedging hurdles for CVA
Funding and credit risk with locally elliptical portfolio processes: an application to central counterparties
In this paper, the authors extend the scaling approach of Andersen et al (2017a) from a model driven by Brownian motion to one driven by an arbitrary isotropic Lévy process.
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
UK bank RWAs inch up on credit and counterparty risk
Total RWAs stable year-on-year
CVA exemption in Basel III could save EU banks more than €18bn
Tweaks to op risk framework might reduce capital shortfall by €12.3 billion
Podcast: Gregory and Chung on wrong-way risk modelling
Quants discuss a better way to model wrong-way risk