Webcast: Why LIBOR discounting is so wrong

Speaker: Dr Jon Gregory

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Webcast Agenda

• The history of LIBOR discounting 
• The global financial crisis and OIS discounting for collateralized trades 
• FVA and LIBOR discounting of uncollateralized trades 
• LIBOR-OIS basis and the symmetry of FVA 

Q&A

1.What about discounting when there are different types of collateral?
A. See video at 30:53.

2.You mentioned symmetric and asymmetric funding, but what do most banks actually do? How do they treat their funding?
A. See video at 32:28.

3.During the talk the theme of partial collateralization came up as a potential issue for LIBOR discounting; what do banks do in that case?
A. See video at 35:14.

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