Credit valuation adjustment (CVA)
Capital savings from new IM regime elude dealers
Slow model development and approval processes mean banks yet to see benefits expected under margin rules
Banks say Europe’s CVA proxy-spread plans lack flexibility
Dealers welcome EBA proposals but say limited number of eligible counterparties means few benefits
Japanese banks eye phased CVA introduction
Working group reports “growing need” for valuation adjustment but cherry-picking fears persist
Mnuchin makes life harder for quants
Proposed CCAR changes make KVA calculations even more complex
Margin settlement risk and its effect on CVA
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XVA reaches far and wide
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Buy side unimpressed with Mifid II cost transparency rules
Clients question value of receiving dealers’ swaps profit margin data
Rethink urged over Basel’s counterparty exposure framework
Industry calls for softening of SA-CCR amid claims it could lead to doubling of calculated exposures
A sound modelling and backtesting framework for forecasting initial margin requirements
Anfuso, Aziz, Loukopoulos and Giltinan propose a method to develop and backtest forecasting models for IM
European banks tire of CVA guessing game
Continued political wrangling over Europe’s CVA exemption increases uncertainty for dealers
EU capital revamp paves way for corporate CVA charge
Draft directive offers national regulators power to override controversial exemption
EBA shelves CVA charge plans after twin defeats
Ongoing rule changes at Basel and EU could allow future bid to end corporate exemption
Q&A: EBA’s Vaillant on Basel IV, FRTB and CVA
Authority’s “key goal” in Basel talks has been to defend risk-sensitive capital framework
Japan CVA shift may break local banks’ swaps stranglehold
Introduction of pricing adjustment could see foreign banks compete for corporate business
‘A choreographed ballet’: academics attack CVA
Derivatives add-on rubbished by Cont and Rebonato
UK banks face increased XVA burden after ring-fencing
Funding spreads to raise FVA and MVA; netting splits to hit CVA
Three Japanese banks consider new CVA approach
Industry working group formed to discuss introducing accounting adjustment
XVA at the exercise boundary
Andrew Green and Chris Kenyon show how the decision to exercise an option is influenced by XVAs
Australian VM relief undermined by backloading rule
Trades entered during six-month transition period will need margin from September 1
Risk solutions house of the year: SG CIB
Risk Awards 2017: From African nations to Italian corporates, XVAs are an awkward new obstacle
Derivatives house of the year: Citi
Risk Awards 2017: Simple vision has taken rates business a long way
Market risk technology vendor of the year (specialist): CompatibL
Risk Awards 2017: XVA and reg specialist finds "perfect use case" for maths trick
Review of 2016: turn and face the strange
Post-crisis reform has caused upheaval, but gave recent years a sense of direction; in 2016, that was missing