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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972474803321

Autore

Ong Li

Titolo

The Credit Risk Transfer Market and Stability Implications for U.K. Financial Institutions / / Li Ong, Jorge Chan-Lau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

9786613829962

9781462339716

1462339719

9781452732992

145273299X

9781283517515

1283517515

9781451909180

1451909187

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (27 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

Chan-LauJorge

Soggetti

Credit derivatives - Great Britain

Derivative securities - Great Britain

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks and banking

Banks

Capital and Ownership Structure

Cdos

Credit risk

Credit

Depository Institutions

Derivative securities

Finance

Financial Instruments

Financial Risk and Risk Management

Financial risk management

Financial services law & regulation

Financing Policy

Goodwill

Industries: Financial Services

Institutional Investors

Insurance companies



Investments: Derivatives

Micro Finance Institutions

Monetary economics

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Money and Monetary Policy

Mortgages

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Pension Funds

Value of Firms

United Kingdom

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2006".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. CREDIT RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS: STRUCTURED CREDIT PRODUCTS AND CREDIT DERIVATIVES""; ""III. INTERLINKAGES ACROSS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS""; ""IV. EXPOSURE OF U. K. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO CREDIT DERIVATIVES""; ""V. REGULATORY AND SUPERVISORY INITIATIVES""; ""VI. CONCLUSION""; ""HOW COLLATERALIZED DEBT OBLIGATIONS (CDOS) WORK""; ""KEY RISK FACTORS IN CREDIT RISK TRANSFER (CRT) MARKETS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

The increasing ability to trade credit risk in financial markets has facilitated its dispersion across the financial and other sectors. However, specific risks attached to credit risk transfer (CRT) instruments in a market with still-limited liquidity means that its rapid expansion may actually pose problems for financial sector stability in the event of a major negative shock to credit markets. This paper attempts to quantify the exposure of major U.K. financial groups to credit derivatives, by applying a vector autoregression (VAR) model to publicly available market prices. Our results indicate that use of credit derivatives does not pose a substantial threat to financial sector stability in the United Kingdom. Exposures across major financial institutions appear sufficiently diversified to limit the impact of any shock to the market, while major insurance companies are largely exposed to the "safer" senior tranches.