The Credit Risk Transfer Market and Stability Implications for U.K. Financial Institutions

June 1, 2006

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Li L Ong, and Jorge A Chan-Lau. The Credit Risk Transfer Market and Stability Implications for U.K. Financial Institutions, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

The increasing ability to trade credit risk in financial markets has facilitated its dispersion across the financial and other sectors. However, specific risks attached to credit risk transfer (CRT) instruments in a market with still-limited liquidity means that its rapid expansion may actually pose problems for financial sector stability in the event of a major negative shock to credit markets. This paper attempts to quantify the exposure of major U.K. financial groups to credit derivatives, by applying a vector autoregression (VAR) model to publicly available market prices. Our results indicate that use of credit derivatives does not pose a substantial threat to financial sector stability in the United Kingdom. Exposures across major financial institutions appear sufficiently diversified to limit the impact of any shock to the market, while major insurance companies are largely exposed to the "safer" senior tranches.

Subject: Banking, CDOs, Credit, Credit risk, Insurance companies

Keywords: Credit derivative, CRT market, Market, WP

Publication Details

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27
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2006/139
Stock No:

WPIEA2006139
ISBN:

9781451863994
ISSN:

1018-5941

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