Interest Rate Derivatives
70 white papers and resources
Risk Library offers a wide range of interest rate derivatives white paper, industry report and legal briefings which consider current issues, thinking and market conditions. An interest rate derivative is a derivative that gives an investor the right to buy or receive money at a certain interest rate in the future. Interest rate derivatives are used to circumvent the risk and uncertainty attached interest rates.
OTC IRS Portfolio Optimisation: how trade compression could save funds $mlns before the 2016 European Clearing Mandate strikes
This white paper describes a new approach to trade compression that allows fund managers to reduce the costs of swap clearing by up to 80% by eliminating excess gross notional from their books. The aim is to increase both trading and clearing efficiency in advance of the impending 2016 European…
Emerging initial margin requirements
Ongoing market uncertainty over the new and evolving margin regime for non-cleared over-the-counter derivatives has drawn many questions from firms, with too few reliable answers. This global survey – conducted by Risk and sponsored by IBM – is one of the first,comprehensive attempts to shed some…
Integrating Risk into Pre-Trade Analysis: Practical Ways of Bringing Credit, Liquidity, Funding and Regulatory Costs into an Integrated Profitability Framework
As regulations in the derivatives market continue to be rolled out and implemented, financial institutions face growing pressure on their current business models. To survive and thrivein this new era of derivatives trading, today’s practitioners need to adopt a more integrated and holistic approach…
Buy-side Collateral Management - Challenges and Opportunities
The current pace of regulatory change can seem overwhelming to many buy-side firms trading Derivatives. The move to central clearing of some OTC products has raised a number of new challenges around the collateral management process that buy-side firms must deal with. This paper considers the…
EMIR Special Report August 2014
This special report explores lessons learned from the first EMIR reporting phase, which became effective on Feb. 12, and looks forward to the newest phase, exploring what the newly reported data will tell regulators about the bigger picture of the derivatives market in the European Union. We also…
Future Trends in Optimisation Collateral, Regulatory Capital & CCP Selection
Financial firms are currently experiencing significant regulatory and cost pressures. This is leading to a search for ways to optimize various aspects of trade types that involve some level of counterparty credit risk (derivatives, securities lending, repo). This paper looks at the different types…
Model Validation: New Approaches in Testing Mathematical and Financial Correctness of Models
In this paper, we will examine model validation as it is typically practiced today and then explore new approaches, including the benefits of testing with mathematical identities.
Tomorrow’s Corporate Treasury
Implementation schedules have slipped anddetails are still being worked out, but there can be no doubt that the regulatory landscape for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives is changing dramatically.
Collateral Discounting: Rethinking the Interest Rate Pricing Framework from its Basic Concepts
This article examines how a swap portfolio’s value differs under the single and multi-curve approaches at four different snapshots in time―including pre-crisis, at the height of the crisis, post-crisis and today.
Hedging CVA and DVA
This paper illustrates the challenges and complexities financial institutions face in hedging Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) and Debit Valuation Adjustment (DVA) in the present market and regulatory environment.