Credit Risk Sources and Management

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CreditMetrics
Barclay Capital Group's credit risk measurement and management tool.

 
Corporate Uses for Credit Derivatives
Article in the International Treasurer that provides an overview of credit derivatives usefulness in managing credit risk.

 
Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) and Credit Risk Mangement
A case study on credit risk management, using the LTCM recapitalization as an example.

 
A Comparative Anatomy of Credit Risk Models
Comparison of JP Morgan's CreditMetrics and Credit Suisse's CreditRisk products by Michael Gordy of the Federal Reserve.

 
Modeling Default Risk
Process for measuring, analyzing and managing default risk. Provided by KMV.

 
Credit Policy
Article that suggests credit risk management system implementation strategies.

 
Credit Risk Model Implementation
Challenges facing the implementation of a credit risk policy.

 
A Comment on Market vs. Accounting-Based Measures of Default Risk,
Advocation of the use of market prices to measure default risk probabilities. Provided by KMV.

 
PMA Credit Insurance Consultants
Provider of credit insurance underwriting advice for international firms.

 
Modern Portfolio Credit Risk Modeling
Presentation by Richard Skora to the GARP meeting in 1998, in which he outlines the construction of a credit risk management function in a financial firm.

 
Empirical Assessment of a Simple Contingent-Claims Model for the Valuation of Risky Debt
Definition, derivation and application of KMV's expected default frequency measure.

 
The New Science of Credit Risk Management
Article that examines new developments in credit risk measurement and management.

 
Rational Modeling of Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives
Discussion of credit risk and derivatives pricing via interest rate model extensions and applications for credit risk management.

 
The Derivatives 'Zine: Credit Risk Management
Provider of news, discussions and links to relevant sources of credit-risk analysis.

 
Stress Testing Credit Risk
Measurement of correlation as a critical factor in credit risk management.

 
DefaultRisk.com
Credit risk modeling and measurement resource for corporate debt.

 
Critical Success Factors For Credit and Collections
Article that outlines factors that are critical to the success of reducing payment risk in a receivables portfolio.

 
Credit Derivatives: Hedging Closer to Happiness
An article on the usefulness of credit derivatives for risk managers.

 
Credit Valuation
Presentation of a credit valuation model by KMV.

 
Credit Models
Article that reviews the most widely used credit risk management systems.

 
Uses and Abuses of Bond Default Rates
Measuring and applying bond default rates in credit risk management.

 
A Credit Risk Management Framework
Article by Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) outlining a framework for managing credit risk. Also, an introduction to CSFB's Creditrisk+ product.

 
Credit Derivatives End Users
Article examining why insurance companies are willing to take on risk in the form of credit derivatives.

 
A Survey of Contingent-Claims Approaches to Risky Debt Valuation
Survey of available research on the contingent-claim approach to valuation of risky debt.

 
Volatility: The Credit Risk Website
Information site dedicated to credit risk. Includes articles on measuring and managing credit risk.

 
A Series Expansion for the Bivariate Normal Integral,
Analysis of a correlation technique that is critical to the measurement of credit default probability correlation.

 
A New Framework for Measuring the Credit Risk of a Portfolio
An alternative value-at-risk model with practical applications for managing credit risk.

 
Credit Derivatives and Bank Capital
Information on the use of credit derivatives to improve loan portfolio returns and optimize bank capital.

 
The Challenge of Credit Risk
Speech by Federal Reserve Board member William McDonnough on credit risk management and leveling the playing field.

 
Divide and Conquer
Article that argues for a portfolio approach to credit risk management.

 
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