Credit default swaps
Clearing house of the year: LCH
Risk Awards 2025: LCH outshines rivals in its commitment to innovation and co-operation with clearing members
CDS clearing rates hit 71% high around September iTraxx roll
CFTC data shows tilt away from bilateral settlement mainly in Europe-referencing instruments
CDS market revamp aims to fix the (de)faults
Proposed makeover for determinations committees tackles concerns over conflicts of interest
BNPP overtakes Barclays in Ucits single-name CDSs
Counterparty Radar: Europe’s retail funds shed notional but used wider range of underlyings, new data shows
Avon CDS holders win payout despite narrow debt auction
With swap volumes outweighing eligible deliverable debt, holders feared contracts could be worthless
Citi revealed as top index CDS dealer to Ucits funds
Counterparty Radar: Novel data shows US banks captured nearly 90% of uncleared notional volume in European markets
Barclays disputes CDS committee decision ahead of auction
Representing the bank, law firm Milbank argues the committee’s approach risks constraining the market and goes against expectations
The post-Archegos risk model rebuild begins… slowly
Following regulatory prodding, banks start to overhaul counterparty risk models. A flurry of new research on the topic may aid the effort
Deutsche curbs CVA charges to record low
Addition of hedges in Q2 helps cut RWAs by 26%, outpacing other European banks
Sliced and sliced again: investors’ latest trick for risk transfer
‘Retranched’ synthetic securitisations offer higher yields, but questions remain over legality of structures
DCOs show resilience beyond key default thresholds – CFTC
Reverse stress test reveals clearing houses remain resilient under low to moderate market shocks
Banks look to offload ‘orphan’ hedge risk
Bespoke CDSs shift private credit borrowers’ derivatives default exposures back to the buy side
New CDS index delayed by regulatory capital concerns
Dealer worries about impact of self-referencing trades derail CDX Financials launch at last minute
China CDS users slow to embrace new credit event panel
Decisions from Nafmii determinations committee yet to be switched on in agreements
Continued decline of the one-stop shop
Dealer Rankings 2024: Only two banks make the top 10 across all rankings tables – others have focused on vertical dominance
New CDS index aims to broaden hedging of US bank exposure
CDX Financials will include inactive or untraded single names referencing smaller institutions
Often fluid. Not always liquid
Dealer Rankings 2024: On the buy side and the sell side, the make-up and depth of OTC mini-markets can change rapidly
Cleared rate for CDSs dropped in H2 2023
Record five-percentage point decline driven by multi-name contracts
Fed green lights more capital relief trades
Five US banks authorised to issue repeat credit-linked notes backed by financial guarantees
Tracing credit contagion effects from corporates to the real estate sector
S&P Global Market Intelligence explores possible credit contagion effects from the corporate sector to real estate by using S&P Global Ratings’ research and underlying data to formulate clients’ own views on risks in the sector
DVAs inflate US banks’ liabilities by $4.9bn
Credit spread retrenchment since last year’s crisis comes with flipside of larger structured-product liabilities