Default risk

Pricing default baskets

Nicholas Dunbar, Risk’s technical editor, introduces the first in a new series of technical papers written by quants at Deutsche Bank.“Default correlation has been one of the hottest topics in credit derivatives over the past year. So it is a pleasure to…

Banking on progress

A dizzying array of credit risk technology firms have set up shop in Asia in order to reap the rewards of the new Basel recommendations. But are Asia’s regional banks ready to implement these systems?

Probing granularity

The granularity adjustment, which adjusts risk weightings for credit portfolio diversification, is one of Basel II’s key modelling assumptions. Here, Tom Wilde uncovers a weakness in this assumption arising from the differences in the underlying credit…