DAY 2 - Thursday, 2nd September 2010

8.30 Registration and coffee

9.00 Pricing counterparty risk through CVA
  • Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) and the price of counterparty risk
  • Contract level vs. counterparty level
  • CVA and risk neutral expected exposure
  • Simulating risk neutral exposure
  • Pricing new trades with a counterparty

Dr Jon Gregory, Counterparty Risk Consultant, OF TRAINING

10.30 Morning break

11.00 Managing wrong way risk

  • General and specific wrong way risk
  • Wrong way exposure
  • Modelling wrong way risk
  • Effective measures to deal with wrong way risk

Dr Jon Gregory, Counterparty Risk Consultant, OF TRAINING

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Managing CVA in a bank/hedging counterparty risk

  • Hedging jump to default risk with CDS
  • Hedging CVA against changes in the market factors
  • Static hedging using contingent CDS
  • Risk return under a hedge framework

Dr Jon Gregory, Counterparty Risk Consultant, OF TRAINING

15.00 Afternoon break

15.30 Development of central counterparties

  • What are central counterparties?
  • How do they interact with exchanges?
  • How do they mitigate counterparty credit risk?
  • Stress testing the central counterparty model: the Lehman default
  • Pig on pork: central counterparty clearing of credit default swaps

Andrew White, General Manager, Risk Operations, ASX

17.00 End of course