The corporate bond market continued to feel heavy last week as credit spreads leaked wider in the investment-grade market and were crushed in the high-yield market. The new issue market remained ...

Discover the types and uses of credit derivatives, including credit default swaps, and how they mitigate risk in financial ...

Counterparty risk is the chance that the other party in a financial transaction may not meet their obligations. It can occur in loans, derivatives and trading contracts with banks, insurers, or other ...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's (BCBS) Standardised Approach to Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) was introduced to improve the risk sensitivity of capital framework for derivatives ...

One could argue, that in a similar way that social distancing can limit the epidemic spread in the current health crisis, applying correct counterparty risk measures can prevent the contagion and ...

A consortium led by major investment banks active in the huge over-the-counter derivatives market in credit default swaps (CDS) plans to launch a central clearinghouse by September in an effort to ...

The OTC derivatives market has seen several defaults in the past two decades, each of which has led to a rethink of industry practices. Nowhere is this more evident than in the evaluation of ...

ZURICH, July 9 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse CSGN.S has carved out a new role to tackle the risks it takes in lending to investment banking clients and in other customer relationships sensitive to market ...

As the risks to global financial markets intensify and take on new forms, regulators are revising and strengthening their requirements to bolster stability and ensure effective risk management . From ...

A credit default swap (CDS) is a contract that protects lenders from borrower default. Learn how a CDS works, why they’re ...

RBI also proposed treatment for deferment of option premium, guidance on computation of effective notional for options, and ...