Under the new Basel III banking regulation banks should include wrong-way risk (WWR) into the calculation of the credit valuation adjustment (CVA) of the OTC derivatives. WWR takes place when the exposure to a counterparty is adversely correlated with the credit quality of that counterparty....

The Basle II parameter called Loss Given Default (LGD) aims to estimate the expected losses on not yet defaulted accounts in the case of default. Banks firstly need to collect historical recovery data, discount the recovery income and cost cash flow to the time of default, and calculate...