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Financial Solutions

Credit Derivative (CD) Solutions

In this rapidly evolving market, users need a system that can quickly adapt to the most recent innovations. Credit Derivative (CD) Solutions provides the powerful real-time tools, instrument builders and transaction processes that enable banks and other financial institutions to rapidly implement new products/strategies, lower credit risk and optimize the use of capital as expeditiously as possible.


Instrument Coverage:
  • Asset Swaps
  • Total Return Swaps
  • Single Name CDS
  • Digital CDS
  • Constant Maturity CDS
  • CDS Indices (funded and unfunded)
  • Tranched CDS Indices (funded and unfunded)
  • Nth-to-Default Baskets
  • CDSwaptions
  • CDS Index Options
  • Collateralized Debt Obligations
  • Credit Linked Notes
  • Credit Index Notes

Key features of CD include:
  • Flexible curve management and risk factor construction techniques to enable modeling of credit spread curves, survival/default probability curves, time-varying/constant recovery rate assumptions, and correlations
  • Credit Event Manager for recording credit events, automatically exercising the implied credit event options, and settlement of reference obligations
  • Static Data Facilities for managing credit ratings, credit classifications recovery rate assumptions, and credit index constituents
  • ISDA compliant Legal Agreement and Document Management Facilities
  • Integrated Pricing Models including Jarrow & Turnbull, JP Morgan, Copula, Hull White and Monte Carlo
  • User-defined Instruments and External Pricing Model Interface for third party/proprietary models, new products, and highly structured/customized instruments.
  • Real-time consolidated positions aggregating fixed income, asset swap, and credit derivative positions
  • Real-time Credit Usage Monitoring
  • Credit Limit Management
  • Stress Testing Capabilities of recovery rate assumptions, CDS premiums, survival/default probability assumptions, correlations, and pricing models