Credit ratings
Sovereign risk manager of the year: Côte d’Ivoire
Risk Awards 2025: Dual-tranche $2.6 billion deal enables African sovereign to refinance costly private loans and improve debt sustainability
How do credit rating agencies and bond investors react to credit guarantees? Evidence from China’s municipal corporate bond market
This paper investigates China's municipal corporate bond market, examining the responses of credit rating agencies and bond investors to credit guarantees.
EU banks’ incremental risk charges soared in volatile H2
Charge for traded-bond default and downgrade risk hit 10-year high at BNP Paribas
Brazil readies long-dated FX hedging scheme for green projects
Development bank IDB will lend its credit rating to unlock cheaper USD/BRL hedges out to 25 years
NAIC softens its rating overhaul. Insurers still don’t like it
Insurers worry that the regulatory body could override credit ratings without sufficient explanation
BoE puts American spin on fix for FRTB’s govvies dilemma
Four jurisdictions find four different ways to resolve Basel market risk capital quirk
Esma sounds alarm over conflicts at CLO raters
Investigation points to analysts meeting with managers and notes softening of rating methodologies
Like your CSA dirty? It’ll cost more
Buy-side firms have to pay up if they want to post corporate bonds to their dealers, but prices vary
NAIC proposal sees insurers snub debt rated by smaller agencies
Ability of some corporates to raise capital ‘materially impaired’, bankers say
An NAIC plan to second-guess bond ratings is ‘nonsensical’, insurers say
Proposal to create “quasi rating agency” at regulatory body sparks backlash from industry and US Congress
Norinchukin’s credit RWAs up 31% on early Basel III opt-in
Bank’s standardised charges surge 19-fold following overhaul of models’ scope and parameters
IRC capital charges surge at Deutsche and Intesa
Risk-weighted assets covering default and downgrade of traded bonds all but double at Italian lender
How banks can avoid bad haircuts on hedge fund trades
HSBC quant makes case for looking at collateral and funding rates in concert
Why US bank regulation needs a system upgrade
SVB collapse shows supervisory framework is not fit for a changing industry and new systemic risks
The carbon equivalence principle: methods for project finance
A method to price the environmental impact of financial products is proposed
Lifetime achievement award: Stephen Kealhofer
Risk Awards 2023: KMV co-founder helped usher in a new era of credit risk analysis – at banks and investors
Uncleared, unrated CDS notionals boomed in H1 2022
Non-cleared trades up 21% in six months and 14% in twelve, BIS data shows
Fragmented rules muddy Asian FRTB implementation
Banks and vendors warn risk factor data may not be usable across different jurisdictions
UK pension funds rush to dirty CSAs
Fearing margin pain once BoE gilt-buying ends, funds fast-track revisions to post gilts and corporate bonds
EU dealers’ IRC charges surge on debt market jitters
Santander and Natixis among hardest hit, with charges up 117% over first six months of the year
A chilly reception for climate risk capital
Bankers don’t believe climate-adjusted risk-weights will enter EU prudential framework – not for now, at least