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by rrao4
February 14th, 2018, 9:55 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: LGD - IRB Foundation or CDS Recovery Rate?
Replies: 5
Views: 1235

Re: LGD - IRB Foundation or CDS Recovery Rate?

what are you upto in IFRS 9? I think you asked a question on it earlier too
by rrao4
February 14th, 2018, 7:22 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: LGD - IRB Foundation or CDS Recovery Rate?
Replies: 5
Views: 1235

Re: LGD - IRB Foundation or CDS Recovery Rate?

If loan level info not possible then better to use market level value rather than static value of 45%. IFRS 9 requires FVPL for investments, CDS based will be more dynamic and can be adjusted according to the scenario
by rrao4
February 14th, 2018, 7:18 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: LGD - IRB Foundation or CDS Recovery Rate?
Replies: 5
Views: 1235

Re: LGD - IRB Foundation or CDS Recovery Rate?

...pooof...duplicate post
by rrao4
February 14th, 2018, 6:57 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: LGD - IRB Foundation or CDS Recovery Rate?
Replies: 5
Views: 1235

Re: LGD - IRB Foundation or CDS Recovery Rate?

IFRS guidance reccomends usage of loan level data on best effort basis including discounted cash flows in recovery. Both the approaches dont incorporate that
by rrao4
November 21st, 2017, 4:24 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: FRTB Regulation - Resources for IMA
Replies: 3
Views: 6777

Re: FRTB Regulation - Resources for IMA

There were some concerns about the backtesting of ES approach, 
by rrao4
November 21st, 2017, 2:43 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: DL and PDEs
Replies: 132
Views: 66245

Re: DL and PDEs

I understand your point, being a purist to some extent myself, however, the world consists more of non maths people, many with MBA from ivy league who get scared with simple log transformations, forget about EVT and PDEs. Long story short, people learn to drive a car without learning Newton's Laws.
by rrao4
November 21st, 2017, 2:43 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: DL and PDEs
Replies: 132
Views: 66245

Re: DL and PDEs

Agree with "underlying maths (chapter 4, for example) is fairly basic and somewhat outdated".  However, what it enables is to solve a problems a lot faster that it was possible and with reduced manual intervention, especially in credit risk modeling (retail, SME & Wholesale) type of a...
by rrao4
November 21st, 2017, 2:35 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Expected Loss Calculation
Replies: 7
Views: 2693

Re: Expected Loss Calculation

Sorry, but wouldn't the above approach give you a TTC (Through the Cycle) PD, whilst for ECL you're supposed to use the PIT (Point in Time) approach?
Depends upon how one designs the estimation sample. After all, estimation needs to be done for retail portfolios for which no CDS spread is available
by rrao4
November 20th, 2017, 6:55 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: DL and PDEs
Replies: 132
Views: 66245

Re: DL and PDEs

Agree with "underlying maths (chapter 4, for example) is fairly basic and somewhat outdated".  However, what it enables is to solve a problems a lot faster that it was possible and with reduced manual intervention, especially in credit risk modeling (retail, SME & Wholesale) type of a...
by rrao4
November 20th, 2017, 6:05 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Expected Loss Calculation
Replies: 7
Views: 2693

Re: Expected Loss Calculation

The bid-ask spread gives you uncertainty in your pd estimate, and I think you should then (in IFRS9 guidelines) add conservatism to compensate for that uncertainty? Is that so? Also, I expect CDS to give a skewed view on pd, there is probably more demand than supply for cdss? So either the mid, or ...
by rrao4
May 5th, 2017, 8:59 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Difference between OAS and CMM for TBA
Replies: 7
Views: 1818

Re: Difference between OAS and CMM for TBA

 Thanks
Also, could you please recommend any book for this. I was planning to go through Fixed Income Modeling by Claus Munk. Please let me know if you have any other recommendation.

Thanks in advance.
by rrao4
May 4th, 2017, 6:40 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Difference between OAS and CMM for TBA
Replies: 7
Views: 1818

Re: Difference between OAS and CMM for TBA

TBAs are instruments in the market.  The set of coupons for a given collateral type (FN30, FN15, FH30, FH15, GN30, GN15, etc.) is called the coupon stack.  The first two maturities are usually the liquid points. The CMM rate is a rate that is implied by a basket of TBAs.   Usually, "bracketing...
by rrao4
May 4th, 2017, 5:31 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Difference between OAS and CMM for TBA
Replies: 7
Views: 1818

Re: Difference between OAS and CMM for TBA

Before comparing them, do you know what the two of these terms actually stand for? Apologies, but my understanding is very poor, as I have just started. OAS is the spread added to yield, to price the bonds to current market value CMM: Is the bond equivalent rate used to price MBS to the par value I...
by rrao4
May 3rd, 2017, 1:35 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Difference between OAS and CMM for TBA
Replies: 7
Views: 1818

Difference between OAS and CMM for TBA

Newbie question, Can you please help me understand the difference between the OAS and the CMM for TBA mortgages?