Counterparty credit risk : the new challenge for global financial markets / Jon Gregory.
The first decade of the 21st Century has been disastrous for financial institutions, derivatives and risk management. Counterparty credit risk has become the key element of financial risk management, highlighted by the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers and failure of other high profi...
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Table of Contents:
- Counterparty Credit Risk: The New Challenge for Global Financial Markets; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Spreadsheets; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Setting the Scene; 1.1 Financial risk management; 1.1.1 Market risk; 1.1.2 Liquidity risk; 1.1.3 Operational risk; 1.1.4 Credit risk; 1.1.5 Value-at-risk; 1.1.6 Disadvantages of value-at-risk; 1.2 The failure of models; 1.2.1 Why models?; 1.2.2 Good model, bad model; 1.3 The derivatives market; 1.3.1 What is a derivative?; 1.3.2 Market structure; 1.4 Risks of derivatives; 1.4.1 Too big to fail; 1.4.2 Systemic risk.