Quantifi, a leading provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions to the global OTC markets, today announced that Dmitry Pugachevsky, Director of Research, Quantifi will be presenting a webinar ‘Comparing Alternate Methods for Calculating CVA Capital Charges under Basel lll’ on 13th March at 12pm (EST).
“The Basel III proposals introduced changes to the Basel II rules and the need for a new capital charge against the volatility of CVA. This “CVA VAR” capital charge was always likely to be punitive since the Basel committee considered that it referenced two thirds of counterparty risk related losses.”
The global financial crisis brought counterparty credit risk and CVA very much into the spotlight. The Basel III proposals first published in December 2009 introduced changes to the Basel II rules and the need for a new capital charge against the volatility of CVA. This “CVA VAR” capital charge was always likely to be punitive since the Basel committee considered that it referenced two thirds of counterparty risk related losses. However, there are two ways for banks to compute CVA VAR, so-called standardised and advanced methods, which depend on their current regulatory approval with respect to other aspects. Furthermore, there is the potential to reduce the capital charges via eligible hedges. This webinar aims to explore the capital charges under the two regimes and the capital relief that can be achieved by:
- Describing and comparing the various methodologies for calculating counterparty credit risk capital under Basel regulations
- Analysing these methods in detail and demonstrating that both standardised and advanced formulas can be interpreted as 99% VaR of losses due to CVA volatilities; thus simple comparative analysis can be done based on CVA volatilities and correlations implied by the methods
- Running simple tests for three methods: standardised (CEM), standardised (IMM) and advanced to investigate which one performs better for various maturities and different types of counterparties
- Analysing results for a real portfolio and highlighting that the difference in capital between the simple and more advanced approaches when considering hedging can be significant
This is a complimentary webinar.
About the Speaker
Dmitry Pugachevsky, Head of Research at Quantifi, is responsible for managing Quantifi’s global research efforts. Prior to joining Quantifi in 2011, Dmitry was Managing Director and a head of Counterparty Credit Modeling at JP Morgan. Before starting with JPMorgan in 2008 Dmitry was a global head of Credit Analytics of Bear Stearns for seven years. Prior to that, he worked for eight years with analytics groups of Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank. Dr. Pugachevsky received his PhD in applied mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has published several papers and book chapters on modeling counterparty credit risk and pricing derivatives instruments.
