Credit Derivatives

Foreword

The Challenges of a Dynamic Marketplace

Simon Greaves, Application Networks

Introduction

Jon Gregory

Section 1. The Default Swap Market

1. Credit Derivatives: The Past, the Present and the Future

Robert Reoch

2. The Determinant of Credit Spread Returns

 Jouke Hottinga, Aegon and Machiel Zwanenburg, Robeco.

3. What’s Driving the Default Swap Basis?

Viktor Hjort, Morgan Stanley.

4. What is the Value of Modified Restructuring?

Alex Reyfman and Klaus Toft, Goldman Sachs.

5. The Debt and Equity Linkage and the Valuation of Credit Derivatives

Sean Keenan, Jorge Sobehart and Terry Benzschawel, CitiGroup.

Section 2. Default Correlation and Credit Portfolio Risk

6. Nth to Default Swaps and Notes: All About Default Correlation

Douglas Lucas and Alberto Thomas, UBS.

7. Portfolio Credit Risk Models

Greg Gupton, Moodys KMV.

8. Credit Derivatives as an Efficient Way of Transitioning to Optimal Portfolios

Alla Gil, Citigroup.

Section 3. Structured Credit Derivatives and Portfolio Management

9. Overview of the CDO Market

Eileen Murphy, Barclay’s Capital.

10. Synthetic Securitisation and Structured Credit Derivatives

Paul Hawkins, Merrill Lynch.

11. Structured Credit and the Collateralised Synthetic Obligation

Moorad Choudhry, KBC Financial Products.

12. Distinguishing a Synthetic CDO from a Cash CDO

Alexander Batchvarov, Jenna Collins and William Davies, Merrill Lynch.

13. CDOs of CDOs

Darren Smith, Dresner Kleinwort Benson.

Section 4. Models and Valuation

14. Valuation and Risk Analysis of Synthetic CDOs: A Copula Function Approach David X Li and Jure Skarabot, Citigroup.

15. Extreme Events and Multi-name Credit Derivatives

Roy Marshal, Marco Naldi and Assaf Zeevi, Lehman Brothers.

16. Reduced-form Models: Curve Construction and the Pricing of Credit Swaps, Options, and Hybrids

Leif Anderson, Bank of America.

17. Dynamite Dynamics

Jesper Andreasen, Nordea Markets.

18. Modelling and Hedging of Default Risk

Monique Jeanblanc and Marek Rutkowski, Universitẻ d’Evry and Warsaw University of Technology.

Section 5. Regulatory, documentation and legal aspects

19. ISDA’s Role in the Credit Derivatives Marketplace

Louise Marshall, ISDA.

20. Credit Linked Notes

Rodanthy Tzani and Maria Leibholz, Moody’s Investor Services.

21. Using Guarantees and Credit Derivatives to Reduce Credit Risk Capital Requirements Under the New Basel Capital Accord

Erik Heitfield, Federal Reserve Board.