Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27847 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series No. 80
Publisher: 
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Within the last decade, credit risk management of financial institutions has been subject to major changes due to the development of the credit derivatives market. In the past, financial institutions merely had the possibility to manage their credit portfolio by either approving or refusing a credit request. Having made a decision, there was hardly any chance to influence the portfolio at a later stage. Alternative solutions for risk mitigation like selling the obligation (e.g. via an Asset Backed SecurityTransaction) or claiming further collateral were relatively complicated, cost-intensive and of doubtable success primarily due to their dependency on legal requirements and/or negotiation skills. With the emergence of credit derivatives, risk management has received a broad range of possibilities to transfer credit risk easily without affecting the credit relationship. In other words, credit derivatives enable the separation of credit risk from the original obligation and trading of the risk by itself. Therefore, credit portfolios can be managed actively at every stage.
Subjects: 
Credit derivatives
credit derivatives market
credit default swap
credit risk transfer
pricing
valuation
default spread
implicit default probability
risk control
risk management
credit portfolio management
banking supervision
Basel II
credit risk mitigation
JEL: 
C22
G12
G28
G32
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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