Counterparty credit limits: the impact of a risk-mitigation measure on everyday trading
A counterparty credit limit (CCL) is a limit that is imposed by a financial institution to cap its maximum possible exposure to a specified counterparty. CCLs help institutions to mitigate counterparty credit risk via selective diversification of their exposures. In this paper, we analyze how CCLs i...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor and Francis
2021
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| Summary: | A counterparty credit limit (CCL) is a limit that is imposed by a financial institution
to cap its maximum possible exposure to a specified counterparty. CCLs help institutions
to mitigate counterparty credit risk via selective diversification of their exposures. In
this paper, we analyze how CCLs impact the prices that institutions pay for their trades
during everyday trading. We study a high-quality data set from a large electronic trading
platform in the foreign exchange spot market, which enables institutions to apply CCLs.
We find empirically that CCLs had little impact on the vast majority of trades in this
data. We also study the impact of CCLs using a new model of trading. By simulating
our model with different underlying CCL networks, we highlight that CCLs can have a
major impact in some situations. |
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