Product Description

To enhance your understanding of the risk management, pricing and regulation of counterparty credit risk, this new title offers the most detailed and comprehensive coverage available. Michael Pykhtin, a globally respected expert in credit risk, has combed the industry’s most important organisations to assemble a winning team of specialist contributors – presenting you with an insider’s view of all the main elements of counterparty credit risk and how it will develop in the future. This new book brings you up-to-date with the very latest developments and innovations in modelling counterparty risk. Offers a detailed and topical analysis of the Basel Committee’s new regulatory capital rules for counterparty credit risk and the underlying models – and explains the changes Basel II will bring. You will learn from authors representing the cream of academia as well as the world’s leading financial and regulatory bodies – many of whom actively participated in the consultations between the industry and regulatory agencies on the new Basel II rules. Topics covered include: modelling collateral agreements, the development of conditional pricing methodology, modelling exposures for credit-sensitive instruments, the development of analytical methods for portfolio credit risk, emergence of expected positive exposure as the foundation for loan equivalent exposure, and the pricing of counterparty risk for credit-sensitive instruments. Additionally, the book reviews already established modelling concepts and methods. A comprehensive reference of lasting value – an essential learning tool for anyone involved with counterparty credit risk.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1324377 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 399 pages

About the Author
Michael Pykhtin is a vice president in the Credit Analytics group at Bank of America in Chicago. He is responsible for developing new credit risk methodologies for the bank’s portfolio of derivatives and other capital market products. Prior to joining Bank of America in 2005, Michael was a vice president in the Capital Allocation & Quantitative Analysis group at KeyCorp in Cleveland. His main responsibility was developing models of credit risk and economic capital for the bank’s portfolio of loans and other assets. Prior to joining KeyCorp in 2000, Michael was a researcher in theoretical physics, studying vibrational dynamics at surfaces and interfaces of materials. Michael has been a frequent contributor to Risk magazine’s Cutting Edge section. He holds a PhD degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Customer Reviews

Good book on counterparty risk
This books covers the latest in counterparty risk in an elegant manner. Being part of a multilateral institution, this boook came in handy. A word of caution, though: while this book is no doubt a wonderful find, it may not be very useful for the novice in counterparty risk.