ECAI (Credit Rating Agency) Spotlight: CTRISKS
CTRISKS CTRISKS is an Asia-based credit rating agency and risk consulting firm. It is a recent entrant into the market that is mostly dominated by Dagong and China Credit Information Service (CCIS)....
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In response to the interest in a previous report about credit default swaps and the credit rating agencies, CreditLime has put together a special series covering the definition of these credit rating...
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External Credit Assessment Institutions (Credit Rating Agencies) – Part 2 ECAI Mapping Process (Using Credit Ratings to Assess Credit Risk For Regulatory Purposes) Supervisors will be responsible for...
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External Credit Assessment Institutions (Credit Rating Agencies) – Part 3 ECAI Domestic currency and foreign currency assessments Where unrated exposures are risk weighted based on the rating of an...
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External Credit Assessment Institutions (Credit Rating Agencies) – Part 4 Now that we have gone through the definition of ECAI’s in the last 3 parts of this series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), how good a...
View ArticleThe Role of Clearinghouses and Central Counterparties (CCP) in CDS Markets –...
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The Role of Clearinghouses and Central Counterparties (CCP) in CDS Markets – Part 2 The AIG Problem Another problem highlighted during the AIG fallout (where AIG couldn’t pay its CDS counterparties the...
View ArticleHow to use credit default swaps when buying bonds
While CDS is still an institutional-only market, preventing retail investors and other corporations from being able to directly partake in it so far, non-active participants can still keep up-to-date...
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