The trade-off between liquidity risk and counterparty risk in money market networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos León ◽  
Miguel Sarmiento
Keyword(s):  
Liquidity Risk ◽  
Money Market ◽  
Counterparty Risk ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Market Networks

CCPs: A Challenge for Practical Oversight

2016 ◽  
pp. 250-271
Author(s):  
Anna Pliquett
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Liquidity Risk ◽  
Risk Profile ◽  
Counterparty Risk ◽  
Regulatory Oversight ◽  
Legal Risk ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Insight Into

As a first step a short summary of the historical development of CCPs is provided, followed by an outline of the concept and core functions CCPs. Then an illustration of the main risk management safeguards of CCPs is provided. This includes an excursus regarding the hier-archical structure of clearing and regarding procyclical considerations with respect to CCPs. The outline of CCP counterparty risk management is complemented by a brief overview of other risks, including liquidity risk, legal risk, and operational risk. The consideration of the risk profile of CCPs is concluded with some insight into the main factors determining the oversight of CCPs' governance. The full picture of CCPs from an oversight perspective is given by placing the CCPs in the clearing process and the outlining the resulting challenges for regulatory oversight. The chapter concludes with a description of the manifold layers of today's oversight of CCPs.

scholarly journals From illiquid financial instrument to market distress – selected institutional circumstances of the credit crisis

Equilibrium ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Krześniak
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Liquidity Risk ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Counterparty Risk ◽  
Credit Crisis ◽  
Financial Instrument ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

The recently observed credit crunch is yet another market disruption confirming the critical role of liquidity in the financial system. It is however the first time that illiquidity of a single financial instrument has led to illiquidity of a significant part of the financial system. Although the credit crisis had limited effect on the Polish economy, thorough understanding of the underlying mechanisms is necessary to properly monitor the financial stability in the future, as the Polish financial system gets more integrated into the global one. The article discusses selected mechanisms of the crisis and concentrates on the characteristics of the financial markets that led to the sudden spill-over of the turbulence in the global financial markets. The paper highlights the two types of risk, which were underestimated in the past, but played a major role in instigating and magnifying the recent crisis. The first one is the liquidity risk, which may undermine the reliability of the mark-to-market valuation and produce extreme price volatility once the confidence in such valuations is eroded. The second one is the counterparty risk which results from concentration of market turnover in the period of rapidly growing volumes of derivatives traded in the market. The article leads to the conclusion that the lack of transparency and liquidity on the credit risk markets triggered the severe financial crisis in the global financial market. The analysis of the liquidity risk and the counterparty risk illustrates that some institutions became crucial for the functioning not only domestic but also global markets.

scholarly journals Islamic Money Market: An Instrument for Managing Liquidity Risk in Islamic Banks

ICR Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
Sekono Abiola Muttalib
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Liquidity Risk ◽  
Money Market ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Money Markets ◽  
Islamic Financial Institutions ◽  
Banking Institutions

The general consensus of financial experts is that liquidity is the lifeblood of any organisation, which is inclusive of Islamic banks. Hence, effective liquidity management is essential for the efficiency of banking institutions and the economy as a whole. The major provider of liquidity is the short-term money market instruments.  Islamic financial institutions just like their conventional counterparts use short-term mobilised deposit funds to finance long-term loans and projects which expose them to asset liability mismatches and thus, are vulnerable to liquidity problems. Addressing the potential liquidity risk due to the cash-flow mismatches requires an efficient and vibrant Islamic money market as it is an essential and integral part of Islamic financial system. It therefore raises the need for developing an Islamic money market where Shari’ah-compliant financial instruments are to be traded and operated based on Shari’ah principles. Although it is considered the surest approach to sound liquidity risk management in Islamic banks, the dilemma that Islamic money markets are facing now is acute shortage of Shari’ah-compliant financial instruments and the controversies surrounding the few available instruments. A successful liquidity risk management therefore requires ensuring well functioning Islamic money markets with some if not all controversies/addressed through embarking on development of new products or promoting innovation in order to enable Islamic banks to compete effectively with their conventional counterparts. Hence, this study attempts to present a better understanding of various Islamic money market instruments, their roles in managing liquidity and their relationship with liquidity risk management.

Exploring the trade-off between liquidity, risk and return under sectoral diversification across distinct economic settings

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Henriques ◽  
Elisabete Neves
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Liquidity Risk ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Objective Functions ◽  
Cardinality Constraints ◽  
Risk And Return ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Risk Increase ◽  
Trade Offs

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the trade-off between liquidity, risk and return under sectoral diversification across distinct economic settings and investment strategies.Design/methodology/approachA novel multi-objective portfolio model is proposed to assess investment decisions under sectoral diversification, where the objective functions and constraints are interval-valued. The objective functions used are risk minimization (through the semi-absolute deviation measure of risk), maximization of liquidity (using turnover as a proxy) and the maximization of logarithmic return. Besides coherence constraints (imposing that the sum of the percentages of investment assigned to each stock should be equal to 100%), constraints regarding the maximum proportion of capital that can be invested (ensuring a minimum level of diversification) and cardinality constraints (to account for transaction costs) are also imposed.FindingsBesides the trade-off between return and risk, the study findings highlight a trade-off between liquidity and return and a positive relationship between risk and liquidity. Under an economic crisis scenario, the trade-off between return and liquidity is reduced. With the economic recovery, the levels of risk increase when contrasted with the setting of the economic crisis. The highest liquidity levels are reached with the economic boom, whereas the highest returns are obtained with the economic recession.Originality/valueThis paper suggests a new modeling approach for assessing the trade-offs between liquidity, risk and return under different scenarios and investment strategies. A new interactive procedure inspired on the reference point approach is also proposed to obtain possibly efficient portfolios according to the investor's preferences. Regarding previous approaches suggested in the literature, this new procedure allows obtaining both supported and unsupported efficient solutions when cardinality constraints are included.

scholarly journals XVA metrics for CCP optimization

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 25-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Albanese ◽  
Yannick Armenti ◽  
Stéphane Crépey
Keyword(s):  
Liquidity Risk ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Counterparty Risk ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Hurdle Rate ◽  
Suitable Notion ◽  
Capital At Risk ◽  
Numerical Case Study

AbstractBased on an XVA analysis of centrally cleared derivative portfolios, we consider two capital and funding issues pertaining to the efficiency of the design of central counterparties (CCPs). First, we consider an organization of a clearing framework, whereby a CCP would also play the role of a centralized XVA calculator and management center. The default fund contributions would become pure capital at risk of the clearing members, remunerated as such at some hurdle rate, i.e. return-on-equity. Moreover, we challenge the current default fund Cover 2 EMIR sizing rule with a broader risk based approach, relying on a suitable notion of economic capital of a CCP. Second, we compare the margin valuation adjustments (MVAs) resulting from two different initial margin raising strategies. The first one is unsecured borrowing by the clearing member. As an alternative, the clearing member delegates the posting of its initial margin to a so-called specialist lender, which, in case of default of the clearing member, receives back from the CCP the portion of IM unused to cover losses. The alternative strategy results in a significant MVA compression. A numerical case study shows that the volatility swings of the IM funding expenses can even be the main contributor to an economic capital based default fund of a CCP. This is an illustration of the transfer of counterparty risk into liquidity risk triggered by extensive collateralization.

scholarly journals Liquidity and counterparty risks tradeoff in money market networks

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo León-Rincón ◽  
Miguel Sarmiento
Keyword(s):  
Money Market ◽  
Market Networks
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