Questions tagged [collateral]
Questions related to collateral, from impact on theoretical valuations to operational aspects of collateral posting.
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Has a closed-form formula for the collateral choice option been found?
The collateral choice option problem has been formulated in e.g. Fujii and Takahashi (2011), Piterbarg (2012) or Antonov and Piterbarg (2013), as the computation of an expectation of the following ...
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Pricing with collateral
I have been confused about many things concerning the princing of securities with collateral.
We can prove that today's price of a security( fully collateralized and within the same currency) is the ...
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How to estimate quantitatively the settlement period?
The context of this question is Counterparty Credit Risk. In particular, the modelling of collateral for non-cleared OTC derivatives.
Regulators require collateral amounts, such as Variation Margin ...
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How to apply a funded equity collar to illiquid stocks?
I investigate a specific case of the funded equity collar [1].
Let's assume that counterparty $A$ already has a stake in share $XYZ$ and wants to get funding out of it from a bank $B$, which does not ...
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Tax obligation in collaterised loan
Typically physical assets e.g. gold are held as collateral for corporate loan. In case of default, the holder of the corporate loan (i.e. bank) can liquidate the collateral asset held to recover the ...
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Switching from EONIA to ESTR for CSA discounting
In practice, when bilateral counterparties switch from OIS to ESTR discounting, the party which sees a fall in the fair value of the CSA contract gets compensated for the decrease by the other party (...
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Pricing bond backed by collateral
I'm new to quantitative finance, and trying to derive an interest rate for a collateralized bond.
Imagine there are two parties, Alice and Bob. Alice wants to lend $X$ units of an asset to Bob. The ...
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Risk-neutral measure(s) under collateralization and funding costs
In Piterbarg (2010) the author presents a modified Black-Scholes model with an economy with a CSA-collateral (OIS) rate $r_C(t)$, a repo rate $r_R(t)$ and considers a derivative $V(t)$ written on a ...
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Cheapest-to-Deliver (CTD) collateral methodology
Do you know where can I find details about this methodology? Theoretically, in cases where the CSA allows collateral to be posted in different currencies, the counterparty will always choose the ...
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What is a quick way to estimate the haircut on a collateral that is actively traded
If I have an traded asset like a bond with face value of 1 million, but currently trading at 0.9 million, can I simply say that the haircut, if I use this asset as a collateral for repo, is 1 - 0.9=0....
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Quantitative impact of Dodd-Frank Act on risk management
The US Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) introduced mandatory central clearing of standard (e.g. plain vanilla) swaps for big financial institutions in the US in 2013.
It might be a broad question but: what have ...
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Collateral rate vs. funding rate vs. repo rate in derivatives pricing post-GFC
I am reading Funding Beyond Discounting: Collateral Agreements and Derivatives Pricing by V. Piterbarg.
Now I have a question about the relation of the different funding rates in the paper.
$r_C$ is ...
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Collateral Management - Initial Margin Frequency
My understanding is that initial margin presents over collateralization and comes into play in an actual default scenario as it aims to cover closeout costs.
I was wondering what is the frequency of ...
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Equity finance and primary brokerage and their products
I was in the project working on the asset classes known as EF/PB, which is short for Equity Fiance / Primary brokerage, I understand that Equity finance is more or less about securities lending, and ...
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Possible to have different collateral for each party?
Normally bilateral credit support annexes would have both parties post/receive the same collateral be it US treasuries or cash etc. Are there CSAs
Where each party has a different set of eligible ...
