Setup > Credit >Setup

 

 

  1. Credit Risk Capabilities
  2. Quick Counterparty Setup
  3. Credit Accounts and Credit Configuration
  4. Credit Tags
  5. Credit Exposures
  6. Credit Default Curves
  7. Obligor Asset Correlation
  8. Rating Systems and Rating Ranks

 

 

 
 

Credit Risk Features

The Credit Manager module is your main interface to manage all credit terms and conditions:



The Credit Module allows you to:
  • Define Accounts, Counterparties and Obligors.
  • Slice, Dice and Aggregate User Defined Credit Risk Dimension Tags.
  • Create Hierarchies of Guaranteed Counterparties to Model Home Office Subsidiary Relationships:
    This setting allows you to create guaranteed parties. A Guaranteed party's Loss is therefore covered in part or in whole when a loss is incurred during default, and the parties posted collateral is not sufficient to cover the loss.
  • Apply simple or complex Netting Agreement Rules.
  • Define Static or Stochastic Recovery Rates for Both senior and junior rating rank classes.
    Measure Country Exposure through Account and Counterparty Exposure net of collateral. 
  • Define Credit Exposure Confidence Intervals for Simple Credit Exposures or Tail Widths, Bucket Sizes at each Account level or group of accounts  for Advanced Credit Exposure calculation.
  • Convert and integrate different Rating systems and Rating probabilities.
  • Define multiple Rating System Conversions and Weights to Compute Minimum Equity Buffer Capital for Margin Calculation and AAA DPC credit enhancement (Moody's, S&P, FSA or proprietary calculations.
  • Transform one Transition Matrix from one Rating System to another.
  • Interpolate or Extrapolate one Transition Matrix from one Horizon to Another.
  • Define, Import and Blend Hazard Rates, Cumulative Hazards, Survival Rates, Forward or Expected Default Probabilities to Generate Continuous or Discreet  Credit Curves.
  • Apply Contraction or Growth Rates and compute Country Exposure and limit Excess.
  • Assign Country Default Probabilities through Rating Ranks to  compute country default loss and thus incorporate devaluation loss, exchange controls and  other unexpected political risks.
  • Maintain Credit curves or Credit Default Curves to compute:
    • Loss Given Default during Termination Simulation
    • Cost of Downgrade or Upgrade during Migration analysis.
    • Cost of Default during Time to Default or Survival Analysis.
    •  Price Credit Derivatives such as CDS, Total Return Swaps or Equity Default Swaps.
    • Couple Obligor Correlation and Credit Curves to compute Time to Default of Credit Sensitive Portfolios.
    • Price and Hedge CDO Tranches.
  • Convert Transition Matrices into Credit Curves.
  • Apply directly one or Multiple Transition Matrices to generate a Markov Chain of Rating states over multiple simulation horizons.
  • Simulate Full Migration States from one or multiple transition matrices with interest rate spread curve downgrade/upgrade. 
  • Use Obligor Correlations and specific risk (Obligor/Firm Specific Risk) to compute Correlated Defaults.
  • Use obligors to compute Time To Default via Copula. 

Credit Functionality

The credit manager interface includes two important features designed to make the module easier to use:

  • Snap-Shot.
  • Groups

Snap-Shot
The Snap-shot is designed so you can test changes without modifying the original data.
Snap-shot mode sends the data to the engine, but does not affect the active copy that resides in the database.
Snapshots are useful for What-if scenarios and for testing purposes.


Groups
Groups allow you to create new copies of data in the database.
You can obviously only have one active group at a time.
The active group is always the last group you have selected in a given context.
You can also selected your active group in the Credit Default Data View.