Credit Derivatives
61 white papers and resources
Risk Library hosts a number of Credit Derivative white papers, analyst reports and legal briefings.
Fair valuations - what lies beneath
This whitepaper focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing buy-side and sell-side firms when it comes to determining fair valuations for complex and thinly-traded securities like certain derivatives and fixed income instruments. It highlights the difficulties facing capital markets firms…
How to Update $400 Trillion in Contracts for LIBOR Transition
This white paper details the challenges ahead, and shows how the application of workflow, and document collaboration technologies coupled with artificial intelligence (AI), can help manage these challenges and facilitate LIBOR transition at scale.
Analyzing the Market Impact of SOFR Discounting
This paper discusses the differences between OIS curves and SOFR curves, the impact of SOFR discounting on future cashflows, the dynamics of SOFR discounting risk, and the replacement of LIBOR with SOFR as the underlying of the derivatives market.
Coping with uncleared margin rules – the tricks, traps and tools
This white paper discusses the potential impact of UMR on portfolios, profitability, strategy and resource. If further highlights key decision stages in best-practice UMR planning and compares the evolving strategies of in-scope banks and buy-side firms.
The Coming Storm: ‘BBB’ Corporates in a Potential Downturn
This Fitch Ratings white paper examines a portfolio of ‘BBB’ category corporate issuers in the U.S. and Europe in the context of differences in the composition and concentration of ‘BBB’ issuance; transition and default (T&D) patterns in past economic downturns; and issuers’ current leverage and…
The Impact of LIBOR’s Phaseout on Technology: Maneuvering Through the Curve Highway
After 2021, the UK’s FCA will no longer compel banks to use LIBOR as the benchmark for short-term interest rates. In this Q&A, James Jockle, Chief Marketing Officer and Ping Sun, Senior Vice President of Financial Engineering at Numerix discuss the true impact of LIBOR’s end on curve instruments.
Stochastic modelling of the loss given default (LGD) for non-defaulted assets
This paper introduces a different recovery forecasting methodology for LGD (loss given default) parameter and explores stochastic forecasting with details of how to calibrate the model.
Collateral management in an uncertain world
This white paper assesses the scale of the collateral management challenge and considers how firms can best prepare for the future by building greater flexibility around collateral management systems and processes.
How banks can keep pace with XVA
With budgets and resources under pressure, and traditional systems struggling to cope with data volume and complexity, this white paper considers how banks can leverage new technologies to gain a more consistent view across the trades in their portfolios, saving time and money in the process.
The Current State of XVA Adoption
This XVA forum features a panel of industry leaders assessing the major factors driving XVA adoption today.