The work report first describes the current developments on the German market for nonperformingloans, which after its peak in spring 2007 is now also affected by the financialcrisis. The sale of small and medium-size portfolios is described within the scope of a casestudy. Furthermore, the...

During the past two years, private equity funds have acquired substantial portfolios of nonperformingloans from banks in Germany. Typically a private equity investor does notcommit funds unless exit strategies are clearly defined. The usual exit strategies for distresseddebt investors are “fix...

The global distressed debt market has been established for some years now, however withinthis investment universe German Distressed Debt is generally considered as underdeveloped.The aim of this paper is to highlight why Investments are transacted and the framework ofprocesses involved within...

The report deals with the current legal questions relating to the trading, workingout and outsourcing of non-performing loans. Within this framework the basic legalprovisions and the problems arising therefrom, for example, in the area of dataprotection or banking secrecy, are explained and...

In 2004 the Basel Committee published an extensive revision of the capital charges whichcreates more risk sensitive capital requirements for banks. The New Accord called “InternationalConvergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standard” provides in its first pillarfor a finer measurement...

This paper tracks a structured financial innovation, the commercial mortgage-backed securitywhich is not as novel as current discussion around the sub-prime crisis let assume. However,CMBS as credit-derivatives feature various factors that influence the risks arising from acommercial-mortgage...

Loss Given Default (LGD) is a major element for pricing credits and bonds. As there has beena substantial amount of research during the last years, this paper aims to give an overview.Initially, defaults and recovery definitions for credits and the differences to bonds are discussed.A survey of...

This paper studies ’Stylised Facts’ and ’Determinants’ of short-and long-termCDS-spreads of banks. As short-term spreads we choose 6M-, as long-termspreads we choose 5Y-spreads. In the section ’Stylised Facts’ we found thatthe correlation between short- and long-term spreads for the...

This paper discusses the management of loan commitments (“Kreditzusagen“). First, weelaborate on the necessary steps to efficiently manage liquidity facilities. In particular, thedrawdown pattern of single commitments and a portfolio of such commitments have to bemodelled. Based on the...

Generally, information provision and certi¯cation have been identi¯ed as the majoreconomic functions of rating agencies. This paper analyzes whether the \watchlist"(rating review) instrument has extended the agencies' role towards a monitoringposition, as proposed by Boot, Milbourn, and...