Sovereign Credit Default Swaps And Consensus Credit Estimates


This White Paper shows that consensus credit risk data sourced from IRB banks can be combined with market data to give realistic, indicative valuations for a broad range of traded and untraded assets. This framework has many applications, not just for Sovereign CDS but also for Corporate CDS and bonds, as well as bilateral loan insurance pricing and CVA calibrations.

 

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Sovereign Bond Risk Management

In the current low yield environment, many Sovereign bonds issued by different countries are priced at similar levels. However, this Read more

Introduction For Credit Portfolio Managers

Credit Benchmark is a market-led response to three of the most critical issues facing credit risk professionals: 1) The need to Read more

Sovereign Default Risk In Developing Economies

This paper examines the use cases for Credit Benchmark’s Consensus Probabilities of Default (Consensus PDs), in the context of more Read more

Impact Of BCBS Proposals On IRB Banks

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision recently published wide-reaching proposals for reducing variation in Credit Risk Weighted Assets, with a Read more


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Credit Benchmark brings together internal credit risk views from over 40 leading global financial institutions. The contributions are anonymized, aggregated, and published in the form of consensus ratings and aggregate analytics to provide an independent, real-world perspective of credit risk. Risk and investment professionals at banks, insurance companies, asset managers and other financial firms use the data for insights into the unrated, monitoring and alerting within their portfolios, benchmarking, assessing and analyzing trends, and fulfilling regulatory requirements and capital.