  In this note we sketch an initial tentative approach to funding costs
analysis and management for contracts with bilateral counterparty risk in a
simplified setting. We depart from the existing literature by analyzing the
issue of funding costs and benefits under the assumption that the associated
risks cannot be hedged properly. We also model the treasury funding spread by
means of a stochastic Weighted Cost of Funding Spread (WCFS) which helps
describing more realistic financing policies of a financial institution. We
elaborate on some limitations in replication-based Funding / Credit Valuation
Adjustments we worked on ourselves in the past, namely CVA, DVA, FVA and
related quantities as generally discussed in the industry. We advocate as a
different possibility, when replication is not possible, the analysis of the
funding profit and loss distribution and explain how long term funding spreads,
wrong way risk and systemic risk are generally overlooked in most of the
current literature on risk measurement of funding costs. As a matter of initial
illustration, we discuss in detail the funding management of interest rate
swaps with bilateral counterparty risk in the simplified setup of our framework
through numerical examples and via a few simplified assumptions.
