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Credit Default Swaps: The Vanilla Essence
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In Credit Default Swaps: The Vanilla Essence, Indra Rajaratnam provides an invaluable guide to the multifaceted risk considerations highlighting the importance of aligning risk management with product behaviour. This book should appeal to credit default swaps (CDSs) specialists within investment banking, risk management, asset management, product research, and professionals in the hedge fund and insurance sectors. Similarly, regulators, lawyers, academics and students can benefit from clarification of key technical concepts and understanding the behaviour of CDSs for the purposes of risk management.
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In fast-paced financial environments with pressures on deal execution, and regulator focus on accountability-based governance, it’s important that financial and risk professionals understand the behaviour of credit default swaps (CDSs) for the purposes of risk management, when trading, and structuring complex products based on, the ‘plain vanilla’ CDS.
In Credit Default Swaps: The Vanilla Essence, Indra Rajaratnam provides an invaluable guide to the multifaceted risk considerations that stem from the structural features of a CDS (based on the 2014 Isda Credit Derivatives Definitions).
This book should appeal to CDS specialists within investment banking, risk management, asset management, product research and professionals in the hedge fund and insurance sectors. Similarly, regulators, lawyers, academics and students can benefit from the author’s chapter-by-chapter in-depth coverage of major CDS themes (including redenomination, orphaning and sanctions), clarification of key technical concepts and evaluative discussion topics.
Additionally, readers can learn from case studies and over 70 illustrations that have been incorporated to simplify product rules, along with Isda Determination Committee decisions over the 2009–22 period, giving readers a flavour of interpretation themes. The author also analyses basis risk considerations where both the 2014 and 2003 Isda Credit Derivatives Definitions are relevant, and, for a more holistic view of risk management, common structured product amendments and index provisions are covered.
Throughout, Rajaratnam highlights the importance of aligning risk management considerations with product behaviour. As the author emphasises, any time spent understanding the nuances of a CDS is always beneficial. By developing a better understanding of CDS risks, effective risk mitigation becomes easier.
| ISBN | 9781782724414 |
|---|---|
| Navision code | MRAJ |
| Publication date | 30/09/2022 |
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Indra Rajaratnam
Indra Rajaratnam is a solicitor, and works for Re:link (Linklaters) as a consultant with financial institutions in London. She previously worked for over 12 years as a director and deputy general counsel with Citigroup Global Markets Limited (London), where she was also seconded to Citigroup Global Markets Inc (New York). In her role as in-house counsel, Rajaratnam advised a wide range of fixed income desks on credit derivatives, synthetic risk transfer transactions, structured derivatives/financing solutions and repackagings. Her principal focus was on credit, structured credit, asset-backed securities and correlation trading.
Rajaratnam has participated in several industry credit derivatives working groups and committees established by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and, in relation to credit indexes, IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global), which have shaped the form of many credit derivatives products traded in the market today. Her work with these working groups and committees has included product reforms to the 2014 Isda Credit Derivatives Definitions, ‘narrowly tailored activity’, the establishment of new trading conventions to facilitate the trading of CoCos and senior non-preferred debt, and other product initiatives under the auspices of Isda’s Credit Steering Committee.
Prior to joining Citigroup in 2007, Rajaratnam worked in the securities and structured finance department of Ashurst (London) on collateralised debt obligations, structured credit and euro medium-term note issuances, and in the tax and revenue practice group of Shearn Delamore (Malaysia), where she specialised in investment fund issuances, cross-border tax and restructurings.
She gained a BA (Hons) in law with computing from the University of Kent in 1993, and an MBA (Corporate Finance and Financial Markets and Assets) with a distinction from Imperial College London in 2001. Rajaratnam was awarded the Ford Prize in Management for her thesis on the Sharpe ratio of performance assessment in connection with European pension funds and their reform.
Contents
About the Author
Foreword - Stephen Bartlett, EMEA Regional General Counsel, Citigroup
Preface
PART I OVERVIEW
1 A credit default swap snapshot
2 Parties and key players
3 Documentation and standard trading conventions
PART II TECHNICAL CONCEPTS
4 Credit risk period, scheduled termination date and termination date
5 Fixed amounts, floating rate payer calculation amount and initial payment amount
6 Qualifying guarantee and qualifying affiliate guarantee
7 Reference obligation
8 Subordination and the senior non-preferred supplement
9 Outstanding principal balance and due and payable amount
10 Obligations and deliverable obligations
PART III CREDIT EVENTS AND SUCCESSIONS
11 Credit event overview
12 Bankruptcy
13 Failure to pay
14 Repudiation/moratorium
15 Restructuring and redenomination
16 Governmental intervention and contingent convertible capital instruments
17 Successor determinations
PART IV EVIDENTIARY MATTERS AND CONVENTIONS
18 Publicly available information and eligible information
19 Notices
20 Business day terms and timing rules
PART V SETTLEMENT
21 Event determination date and settlement methods
22 Auction settlement
23 Cash settlement
24 Physical settlement
25 Physical settlement fallback procedures
PART VI DISCUSSION TOPICS
26 Orphaning
27 Fixed recovery transaction and reference obligation only trade
28 Novation and early termination
29 Economic sanctions: compliance challenges
30 Disclosures and regulations
31 Conclusion: at the “Exit Checkpoint”
Appendix
References