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CCP Monitor: Improving Risk Trends, Member Upgrades Dominate

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The latest Central Counterparty Clearing House (CCP) monitor produced by Credit Benchmark shows further improvements in credit quality in the two main regions. Figure 1 shows changes in credit risk over the last year (left hand chart), and current credit risk distribution (right hand chart), split by Europe, North America and Other.


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Figure 1: Global CCP Aggregated Consensus Credit Risk

Average Consensus Credit Risk of Global CCPs

Consensus Credit Risk Distribution of Global CCPs

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European CCP credit risk was the first region group to improve, with a significant increase in credit quality from the beginning of this year. North American CCP credit risk has steadily improved from Feb-22 although at a slower rate than European CCPs. The broader “Other CCP” group shows its first improvement for over 6 months.

Overall credit quality is very high, with 60% of North American CCPs in the aa category and the majority of European CCPs in the a category. Outside of these regions, there are some CCPs in the bb (i.e. High Yield) category.

Figure 2 is an extract from the latest CCP monitor, showing median consensus credit risk data on CCPs members, as well as their credit distribution and the proportion of upgrades vs. downgrades. Note that CCP risk is not a linear function of member risk: median member risk does not necessarily reflect CCP direct credit worthiness.

Figure 2: Global CCP Aggregated Member Credit Risk

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To illustrate this, Figure 3 shows Credit Consensus Rating (CCR) for some of the main CCPs – and many of these are not rated by the major CRAs.

Figure 3: Global CCP Entity Consensus Credit Risk

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For example, the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation has a CCR of a+, but the median rating across more than 80% of the members in Figure 2 is a-. Similarly, the CME has a CCR of aa- but the median across 76% of its members is again a-.

CCPs are major users of Credit Consensus data, and as interest rates rise there is a growing focus on credit risk concentration and early indications of changes in credit trends. Consensus data is also available as a download for more than 1000 aggregates, including various financial subsectors. These can be used to calculate upgrade/downgrade ratios and default risk correlations across geographies, industries and sectors.

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