Credit valuation adjustment (CVA)
Crying wolf on CVA?
Standardised approach will hit corporates – but it's not clear that capital will jump
Basel plans modelling curb for billions in credit RWAs
Proposals clamp down on IRB approach that is “usually gamed pretty easily”, says FDIC’s Hoenig
Liability-side pricing of swaps
Wujiang Lou presents a framework to compute recursive CVA and FVA via Monte Carlo simulation
European dealers wrestle with corporate CVA changes
Banks say prices already diverging; CDS market could be impacted
Traders shocked by $712m CVA loss at StanChart
Bank’s new methodology has been used by some rivals for more than a decade
Some European banks pricing in Pillar 2 CVA charge
But three dealers say it is too early to know whether corporate CVA exemption will be removed
From FVA to KVA: including cost of capital in derivatives pricing
Youssef Elouerkhaoui presents a general derivatives pricing framework including cost of capital
Banks launch drive to crush outsized XVAs
Novations and profit-sharing form part of push to trim derivatives valuation adjustments
EBA lacks mandate for new CVA push, critics claim
Move to hike counterparty risk capital has corporate treasurers ‘fuming’
Risk analytics head Canabarro leaving Morgan Stanley
Eduardo Canabarro set to be replaced by Andreas Gocksch, say sources
What credit auction friction says about the OTC market
Benefits of risk bifurcation threatened by collateral conflicts
FVA sceptics lose ground in valuation debate
Market needs to move on from theoretical argument and focus on numbers
The funding invariance principle
Youssef Elouerkhaoui shows how the choice of discounting rate is irrelevant for pricing
Banks work together in effort to reduce XVA costs
Dealers offer rewards to clients and rivals for help in cutting valuation adjustments
Deal of the year: Republic of Senegal / SG CIB / MIGA
Loan insurance from arm of World Bank helped cut CVA and KVA on a $250m cross-currency swap
Emerging markets dealer of the year: Standard Bank
South African dealer reaping rewards of local market knowledge and international reach
How FVA saved the cross-currency swap
Funding benefits have slashed pricing for some uncollateralised trades
Dodgy discounts: DVA claims fly in cross-currency market
Derided pricing adjustment is being used to undercut competition, traders claim
A risk-based performance pipe dream?
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Oil rout sharpens energy companies' focus on credit risk
As defaults rise, firms step up sophistication of counterparty assessments
CVA with Greeks and AAD
Reghai, Kettani and Messaoud present new technique to calculate CVA using adjoints
Cutting edge introduction: Jumpy wrong-way risk
Quants propose easy approximations for modelling wrong-way risk in CVA frameworks
MVA will be a ‘game-changer’, say valuation experts
Leap in initial margin will cut CVA, FVA and KVA, but generate new funding effects
Jumping with default: wrong-way risk modelling for CVA
Fabio Mercurio and Minqiang Li investigate CVAs in the presence of wrong-way risk