Rationale For Wrap
The Conundrum
Historically
- Financial Intermediaries and Rating Agencies had secretive and
proprietary ‘black boxes’ for pricing and measuring the value, volatility
and VAR of complex financial instruments
- Institutions with the greatest exposures were some of the most opaque
- The greater the market volume of a security or a sector, the greater was
its perceived liquidity
Today
- Massive net exposures across a range of non-governmental Fixed
Income Securities
- Trust in both financial institutions and ratings is gone, possibly for a
generation
- The more opaque the calculations, the less the trust,
- The more complex the instrument, the less its liquidity
- Stakeholders, including banks, insurers, investors, regulators, and
governments, demand greater transparency, the question is, how?
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