The Pricing Implications of Counterparty Risk For Non Linear Credit Products

University of Calgary are gratefully acknowledged. The standard disclaimer applies. Counterparty Risk 2 In this paper we describe a methodology for deriving the upper and lower profit and loss (P&L) bounds in the presence of counterparty risk that does not rely on either structural or reduced form credit models. The methodology provides practitioners and regulators with a practical tool to estimate the impact on P&L of the two facets of counterparty risk: failure to perform and mark-to-market exposure. We show that for many applications, the bounds are tight and the credit worthiness of counterparties can have a major impact on the P&L. Counterparty Risk 3