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''Also known as {{tag|CCR}})''  
{{a|crr|}}{{d|Counterparty credit risk|/ˈkaʊntəˈpɑːti/ /ˈkrɛdɪt/ /rɪsk/|n|}}''(Also [[CCR]])'' No, not Creedence Clearwater Revival. But, in the minds of a credit officer, something almost as hallowed: the risk that the counterparty to a [[transaction]] could default before finally settling all payments it owes under the transaction.


No, not Creedence Clearwater Revival. But, in the minds of a credit officer, something almost as hallowed, on which much of the ''Treatment of Counterparty Credit Risk and Cross-Product Netting'' under {{tag|Basel II}} is predicated.
An important component of Basel regulation since at least Basel II, by late stage Basel III and Basel IV, it had become “SA-CCR”, the standardised approach to calculating counterparty
credit risk, replacing previously sanctioned methods.


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Interesting thing I didn’t know until today was that only ⅓ of all losses suffered in the global financial crisis came from actual counterparty defaults. Two-thirds came from [[credit value adjustment]]s arising from the credit deterioration, but not outright failure, of derivative counterparties.
 
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*[[Credit value adjustment]]s