Valuation adjustments (XVAs)

WHAT IS THIS? The XVAs are a family of adjustments that can be made to the price of a derivatives trade, reflecting counterparty risk (CVA), own-default risk (DVA), funding (FVA), capital (KVA) and margin (MVA). Their theoretical roots and practical implementation are still debated, but pragmatism also matters: banks that ignore XVAs are at risk of mispricing a trade; banks that include them are at risk of never winning a trade.

XVA in Japan: the outlook for 2022

Hiroyuki Yoshizawa, executive director, pricing valuations and reference data at IHS Markit Group Japan explores why financial institutions that were early-accounting CVA adopters are now taking the next steps on their XVA journeys