Template:Csa credit support amount calculation: Difference between revisions

From The Jolly Contrarian
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:
===Calculating your {{csaprov|Credit Support Amount}}===
===Calculating your {{{{{1}}}prov|Credit Support Amount}}===
Superficially things are quite different between the {{csa}} and the {{vmcsa}}, but this all boils down to the fact that the {{vmcsa}} is ''meant'' to be a zero-threshold, [[variation margin]]-only affair, so the concepts of {{csaprov|Independent Amount}} and {{csaprov|Threshold}}, both of which confuse the {{csa}}, aren’t there to get in the way. Unless you go and put them in anyway, as we shall see...
===={{csa}}====
===={{csa}}====
How the {{csaprov|IA}} contributes to the {{csaprov|Credit Support Amount}} — being the amount of credit support in total that one party must have given the other at any time<ref>As opposed to the amount required to be transferred ''on that day'', considering the “{{csaprov|Credit Support Balance}}” the {{csaprov|Transferee}} already holds — that’s the {{csaprov|Delivery Amount}} or {{csaprov|Return Amount}}, [[as the case may be]].</ref> under the {{csa}} can be mind-boggling.  
How the {{csaprov|IA}} contributes to the {{csaprov|Credit Support Amount}} — being the amount of credit support in total that one party must have given the other at any time<ref>As opposed to the amount required to be transferred ''on that day'', considering the “{{csaprov|Credit Support Balance}}” the {{csaprov|Transferee}} already holds — that’s the {{csaprov|Delivery Amount}} or {{csaprov|Return Amount}}, [[as the case may be]].</ref> under the {{csa}} can be mind-boggling.  
Line 28: Line 29:


===={{vmcsa}} with a customised [[IA]] amendment====
===={{vmcsa}} with a customised [[IA]] amendment====
Never mind. Well, just for you, the formula is a sort of half-way house: Under this unholy bastardisation of a {{vmcsa}}, a {{vmcsaprov|Transferee}}’s {{vmcsaprov|Credit Support Amount}} will be: '''''Max[0, (E<sub>Tee</sub> + IA<sub>Tor</sub> - (IA<sub>Tee</sub>)].)''''' <br>
Never mind. Well, just for you, the formula is a sort of half-way house: Under this unholy bastardisation of a {{vmcsa}}, a {{vmcsaprov|Transferee}}’s {{vmcsaprov|Credit Support Amount}} will be: '''''Max[0, (E<sub>Tee</sub> + IA<sub>Tor</sub> - IA<sub>Tee</sub>)].)''''' <br>

Revision as of 15:07, 6 January 2020

Calculating your {{{{{1}}}prov|Credit Support Amount}}

Superficially things are quite different between the 1995 CSA and the 2016 VM CSA, but this all boils down to the fact that the 2016 VM CSA is meant to be a zero-threshold, variation margin-only affair, so the concepts of Independent Amount and Threshold, both of which confuse the 1995 CSA, aren’t there to get in the way. Unless you go and put them in anyway, as we shall see...

1995 CSA

How the IA contributes to the Credit Support Amount — being the amount of credit support in total that one party must have given the other at any time[1] under the 1995 CSA can be mind-boggling.

It pans out for a Transferee like so:

This leaves you with a formula for a Transferee’s Credit Support Amount as follows: Max[0, (ETee + IATor - IATee + Threshold)].

Let’s plug in some numbers. Say:

Your Credit Support Amount is therefore 10,000,000 + 2,000,000 - (0 + 5,000,000) = 7,000,000.

Now, whether you have to pay anything or receive anything as a result — whether there is a Delivery Amount or a Return Amount, in other words — depends whether your Credit Support Amount is greater or smaller than your prevailing Credit Support Balance, by at least the Minimum Transfer Amount.

2016 VM CSA with no IA amendment

Since the 2016 VM CSA assumes there is no Independent Amounts and no Thresholds, it is quite a lot easier. It is just the Exposure. So much so, that there isn't even a concept of the Credit Support Amount under the 2016 VM CSA, unless you have retrofitted one, and who in their right mind would do that?

Oh.

You have, haven’t you. You’ve gone and co-opted the Credit Support Amount (VM/IA) concept in your Paragraph 11 annex. Yes you did. No, don’t blame your credit department; don’t say you were just following orders. You did it.

2016 VM CSA with a customised IA amendment

Never mind. Well, just for you, the formula is a sort of half-way house: Under this unholy bastardisation of a 2016 VM CSA, a Transferee’s Credit Support Amount will be: Max[0, (ETee + IATor - IATee)].)

  1. As opposed to the amount required to be transferred on that day, considering the “Credit Support Balance” the Transferee already holds — that’s the Delivery Amount or Return Amount, as the case may be.
  2. There’s something faintly absurd both parties exchanging Independent Amounts by title transfer — they net off against each other — but that’s as may be. Stupider things have happened. SFTR disclosure, for example.