This paper presents the implementation of a derivative market on a public blockchain. Managing derivatives on a distributed system requires a careful re-design of the derivatives business model. The implementation presented here provides many of the features financial professionals are used to,...

In this work Massimo Morini and Andrea Prampolini argue that KVA is a component of profit turned into a valuation adjustment as a by-product of regulatory constraints based on a conservative consideration of market hedges. The regulatory foundations of KVA are analyzed from RWAs to the Leverage...

In the first part we consider a dynamical model for the number of defaults of a pool of names. The model is based on the notion of generalized Poisson process, allowing for more than one default in small time intervals, contrary to many alternative approaches to loss modeling. We illustrate how...

We present a dialogue on Counterparty Credit Risk touching on Credit Value at Risk (Credit VaR), Potential Future Exposure (PFE), Expected Exposure (EE), Expected Positive Exposure (EPE), Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA), Debit Valuation Adjustment (DVA), DVA Hedging, Closeout conventions,...