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In the interbank market, every counterparty was potentially vulnerable.
ECONOMIST: Risk and the new financial order
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In the meantime, it remains difficult for investors to survey a fund's exposure to both the market risk and the counterparty risk in a swap.
WSJ: Swaps Add Risk to Fund Portfolios
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For example, during a period of heightened stress, participants may be willing to provide liquidity to a market if a strong central counterparty is present but not otherwise.
FORBES: Transcript
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During the financial crisis, the credit default swap (CDS) market, a part of the OTC derivatives market, took center stage as difficulties in financial markets began to intensify and the counterparty risk involved in a largely bilaterally cleared market became apparent.
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The financial infrastructure also has important effects on how market participants respond to perceived changes in counterparty risk.
FORBES: Reducing Systemic Risk
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When a cash-rich party enters the market as a lender, it expects its counterparty, the borrower, to put up collateral bonds as protection against default.
ECONOMIST: Repurchase agreements
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One of our concerns was that the infrastructures of those markets and the risk- and liquidity-management practices of market participants would not be adequate to deal in an orderly way with the collapse of a major counterparty.
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