Credit valuation adjustment (CVA)
CVA charges concentrated among top banks in Europe
Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Commerzbank and Societe Generale account for 31% of total CVA across 135 banks
Output floor to drive Basel III capital increase at EU banks
About 40% of total Tier 1 capital surge due to limits on modelled RWAs
CVA charges for Canadian dealers edge off Covid highs
At CIBC, CVA charges fell 12% quarter on quarter
A guiding light for corporates lost in the fog of XVAs
Chris Kenyon proposes a framework for optimising XVAs – from the client perspective
Client engineering of XVA
A client’s guide to reducing XVA in times of need
Isda study reveals size of Covid’s trading book capital hike
Procyclicality led to aggregate 25% rise in market, CVA risk-weighted assets
Japanese generally accepted accounting principles – CVA accounting
In April 2021, Japanese generally accepted accounting principles (JGAAP) will incorporate credit valuation adjustment (CVA) and debt valuation adjustment pricing for derivatives portfolios. With several challenges left to overcome and the deadline…
November 9: the day the Brexodus started?
The UK Treasury’s equivalence verdict is a positive gesture, but could backfire if not reciprocated
Lloyds’ the outlier as UK banks crush CVA charges in Q3
Aggregate CVA RWAs of top five UK banks fell 21%
At UniCredit, XVAs amped trading gains in Q3
Italian bank claimed a €110 million benefit to earnings from valuation adjustments
Funding pain prompts calls to rehome FVA
Dealers push to move derivatives funding costs out of P&L following March’s outsize losses
Science friction: some tire of waiting for quantum’s leap
Use cases for new tech are piling up – from CVA to VAR. But so are the obstacles
Danske quants discover speedier way to crunch XVAs
Differential machine learning produces results “thousands of times faster and with similar accuracy”
Will the exit price be right in new Isda docs?
Industry body is updating unloved procedure for valuing terminated swaps
XVA traders have no time to rest on laurels
Markets have calmed, but they may not be out of the woods yet
BMO, Scotia crush CVA charges
CVA capital requirement fell 48% at BMO last quarter
Top US banks’ counterparties’ credit quality deteriorated in Q2
At Citi, exposures with a PD of 10% to 100% increased 73% quarter on quarter
Virus volatility swelled CVA charges at Barclays, NatWest in H1
PRA capital relief for market risk eased the CVA burden at some lenders
ABN Amro crushes CVA charge with index hedges in H1
Risk-weighted assets for CVA drops 48% in six months to end-June
Commerzbank takes €111m of XVA losses in H1
Valuation adjustment benefits gained in Q2 did not offset huge Q1 losses
HSBC trading unit hit by $355m of XVA costs in H1
Wider spreads continued to eat into derivatives values
Gaussian process regression for derivative portfolio modeling and application to credit valuation adjustment computations
The authors present a multi-Gaussian process regression approach, which is well suited for the over-the-counter derivative portfolio valuation involved in credit valuation adjustment (CVA) computation.
Dealers eye model change to cure CVA capital headache
With hopes of EU regulatory carve-out fading, some banks are taking matters into their own hands
JP Morgan posts $510m XVA gain
Benefit reverses some of the previous quarter’s record loss