Credit valuation adjustment (CVA)
Risk 25: How Basel III is turning borders into barriers
Turning borders into barriers
Risk 25: Banks prepare for a low-RWA future
Weight loss: preparing for a low-RWA future
Risk 25 firms of the future: Misys
Making technology cheaper
Risk 25 firms of the future: Murex
Industrial revolution
Risk 25: Technology vendors adapt their risk systems
Intelligent thinking for risk systems
Risk 25: The FVA debate
The FVA debate
Relief for dealers as Basel reins in capital for cleared trades
Basel Committee addresses long-standing complaints over default fund exposures and client clearing
Corporate deposits used as CVA mitigant
Banks looking to mitigate the new Basel III CVA capital charge – and using corporate deposits as collateral on derivatives is one option, says banker
Prices diverge as CVA exemption remains in limbo
Dealers face pricing headache as they wait to see whether Europe's version of Basel III will exempt corporate customers from the CVA capital charge
Cutting Edge introduction: The origins of the standardised CVA charge
The origins of CVA
Cutting CVA's complexity
Cutting CVA's complexity
Model foundations of the Basel III standardised CVA charge
Model foundations of the Basel III standardised CVA charge
Bank of England to post collateral in OTC derivatives trades
BoE thought to be the first major central bank to change policy on collateralisation as it seeks to reduce dealer funding charges
Risk institutional investor rankings 2012
Deutsche on top
Dealers pitch loan format for swaps as CVA dodge
Banks are offering to replicate the economics of OTC swaps in loan format - avoiding new capital and clearing rules
Corporate trades should not face CVA charge – Risk.net poll
Two-thirds of respondents think trades with corporates should be exempt from Basel III's CVA capital charge
A turning tide for two-way CSAs?
A turning tide for two-way CSAs?
Sponsored statement: Goldman Sachs
Wrong-way CVA done right
To clear or not to clear? Corporates urged to weigh options
Despite hard-won exemptions, corporates should consider the pros and cons of clearing, according to panellists at an ACT event - but treasurers remain unconvinced
Banks look to cut corners on CVA computation
Cutting CVA corners
Italy could face more swap terminations
Italian politicians claim Morgan Stanley's swap termination in January will be a one-off - but dealers say Italy's debt office is subject to other clauses that could have the same effect
Risk Annual Summit: CVA rethink needed, says HSBC risk specialist
Market risk hedges should be recognised when calculating CVA capital charge, says HSBC market risk modelling head
Risk Annual Summit: Deutsche credit risk head questions CRD IV timeline
Banks have nine months until elements of Basel III are due to come into force, but details of implementing legislation are still being debated
New CRD IV draft exempts sovereign trades from CVA capital charge
The latest council draft adds a CVA capital charge exemption for sovereign derivatives transactions – potentially removing one of the big unintended consequences of CRD IV, participants say