Discounting, LIBOR, CVA and Funding: Interest Rate and Credit Pricing

The credit and sovereign debt crises have fundamentally changed the way participants in the global financial markets perceive credit risk. In market practice this is most directly visible from significant bases throughout the interest rate world, especially tenor bases, cross-currency bases, and bond-CDS bases. This means that the curve used for discounting is no longer the curve used for LIBOR (aka Fixing Curve or Forwarding Curve). In the last two years a consensus has emerged that this-c...