As Credit Suisse is aware, Counterparty credit risk is so complicated, that almost all the formulas in the CRR had to be corrected two years later !
A thread!
Ooops we forgot a floor in the duration calculation (btw this formula is still horribly wrong)
Who’s the bloody intern who forgot the long-term bonds in the notional calculations!?
Seriously, no one told you that a number inside a square root has better be positive? (I mean CCR is complex, but not in *that* sense)
I can’t believe you made the same error TWICE!
When you say it out loud, SF sounds so much nicer than SK
You can’t sum on a null set, dude.
Rule number 1 of mathematical logic : if you open a parenthesis, you have to close it & vice versa. You might not seen it, but the computer will.
I can’t believe they took the wrong hedging set for non-electrical commodities. Rookie error.
Read it 23 times and see if you can find the error.
Yeah, I always make the same mistake when I price a bond. 1%, one Basis point, what’s the difference anyway. It’s only money.
Confusing notional and market value for a Jump to default… this will not end well.
Do you need an aspirin ?
Banking regulations are so complex that, after taking three years to draft a regulation, they have to publish a corrigendum two years after, because it was filled with errors.
I hope you feel reinsured.
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It feels like a big mystery about Credit Suisse remained largely unnoticed.
OK, they took a 4.4bn hit from Archegos… but how did they manage to lose *only* 900m in Q1 and wrongfoot analysts who had all estimated much lower capital ratios?
To understand the magnitude of the mystery: the Q1 consensus *before* the Greensill mess was around 1.4bn.
1.4bn-4.4bn=-3bn. Where the hell did the extra 2.1bn come from?! Not to mention a potential Greensill provision.
Let’s be super generous and assume no Greensill provision (hmmm) and a fabulous Q1 with PBT at 2bn.
We’re still missing 1.5bn. Not exactly small change. Where could this come from?
We have the same kind of institution in France. Its effectiveness is not great. Pretty much every application is approved unless reckless. But there was an extraordinary story once... let me tell it to you
This is the kind of institution that will routinely allow members of the ministry of finance to go work for a bank.
But there was this normal guy who was working as a tax inspector. And he had enough of it, he wanted a life change. So he quit and said he wanted to become...
A travelling salesman selling umbrellas ! And believe it or not, the Commission de deontologie (the french equivalent) refused ! Why, will you ask? Surely there is no lobbying or conflict of interest involved !
Why can a treasury guy who authorised big M&A deals can go to a bank
An optimistic Coronavirus thread, & not only about the corona you know!
There are 4 others widespread human coronaviruses (& 2 rare ones) and most of the time, they only give you a common cold.
Why is it important, if SARS-CoV-2 is different?
Meet OC43.
As I said, OC43 will only give you a cold. Sometimes it gives a bad respiratory infection, but it's rare, and no one really cares about OC43. But it hasn't always been like that!
Recent research (dr.dk/nyheder/viden/…) suggests OC43 was responsible for the "Russian flu" of 1890
In many ways, that pandemic was eerily similar to the Covid one - e.g. see this great story (sorry, in French). It killed more than 1 million people and spread like a wildfire.