Default risk
Top clearing houses bolstered default funds over Q1
NSCC reported its guaranty resources grew 231%
Initial margin held by JSCC swelled 65% in Q1
Largest IM call for JGB index futures and options unit was ¥443.9 billion
Covid-19 and the credit cycle
The Covid-19 health crisis has dramatically affected just about every aspect of the economy, including the transition from a record long benign credit cycle to a stressed one, with still uncertain dimensions. This paper seeks to assess the credit climate…
Capital relief trades make slow comeback from Covid slump
European synthetic credit risk transfer market now more expensive for banks
Covid shock could topple US insurers’ exotic CLOs
Losses on “atypical” tranches could hit $899 million
Sold CDS notionals climbed 16% at top US banks in Q1
Net fair value of credit protection positions vaults to $5.3 billion
An alternative statistical framework for credit default prediction
This study compares the gradient-boosting model with four other well-known classifiers, namely, a classification and regression tree (CART), logistic regression (LR), multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) and a random forest (RF).
Margin scuffle at Eurex blurs lines between risk and returns
Disagreement over liquidity risk add-ons may owe more to self-interest than risk management
European lawmakers urged to prevent CCP contagion risk
Watchdog says carve-out needed in new recovery and resolution rules to avoid cascading default of clearing houses
Two-factor Black-Karasinski pricing kernel
Analytic formulas for bond prices and forward rates are derived by expanding existing rate models
ABN winds down Ronin books after Vix losses
$200m loss suffered by bank’s clearing business is thought to be mystery second default
As Covid snaps credit models, lenders turn to stress-testing
Banks enlist scenario analysis to bolster creaking default models
Clearing members in cash clash with Apac CCPs
Banks and clearing houses wrangle over who should pay for losses on invested collateral
Eurex members divided over liquidity risk charges
Banks say proposed charge too conservative, debate whether add-on should be charged directly to clients
Interpretability of neural networks: a credit card default model example
Recently developed techniques aimed at answering interpretability issues in neural networks are tested and applied to a retail banking case
European CCPs home to 241 non-bank clearing members
Majority of non-financial counterparties are energy and power firms
IM phase five – Smaller on bang, bigger on complexity
The initial margin ‘big bang’ may have been reined in by last-minute relief, but dealers aiming to get hundreds of buy-side firms over the documentation finish line by September 1, 2020 fear a compliance bottleneck
JSCC issued ¥486bn VM call in Q3
Estimated largest payment obligation sized at ¥620 billion
The Fundamentals of market risk rules
With the 2022 Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) deadline looming, banks are fast coming to grips with the amount of work still to be done to achieve a successful implementation
At US G-Sibs, swap exposures to corporates climb $43bn in Q3
BofA Securities’ exposures to hedge funds plummets following spike in Q1
Ice adds insurance to default waterfall
Protection promises partial recovery of guarantee funds at three CCPs
LCH to cut jump-to-default margin for cleared CDS
Move could bring margin for cleared CDS closer to bilateral trades, but mismatch remains
Frandt or foe? FCMs hit back at Esma buy-side clearing salvo
Esma pushes dealers to publish standardised fee schedules amid clearing capacity fears