Credit default swaps (CDSs) provide protection for investors in the event that the borrower defaults on their debt or loan. They can play a pivotal part in financial and investment industries, as they ...

Discover how the Credit Default Swap Index (CDX) tracks corporate credit risks, offering investors tools for diversification and hedging within North American and emerging markets.

A credit swap is like an insurance contract. The buyer of a credit default swap receives a payment if the underlying (company or country) defaults which basically means that he or she is buying ...

I GENERALLY do not like to propose bans. But I cannot understand why we are still allowing the trade in credit default swaps without ownership of the underlying securities. Especially in the euro zone ...

Credit-default swaps linked to the senior debt of Anglo Irish Bank have jumped to the highest level since July 2009, according… Credit-default swaps linked to the senior debt of Anglo Irish Bank have ...

Market regulators agreed yesterday to collaborate on the oversight of credit default swaps, the insurance-like derivative contracts that got American International Group into trouble, and said that at ...

A credit derivative contract used as protection against a potential default on a debt security or for speculation. An investor buying a credit default swap pays a regular fee to transfer the risk that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spreads on U.S. government credit default swaps, market-based gauges of the risk of a sovereign default, ...

Regulators and practitioners alike have spent much of 2008 fretting about how the CDS market would perform in the event of a big counterparty default (see Credit default swaps: On dangerous ground ...

LONDON (Reuters) - EU internal market commissioner Michel Barnier was quoted on Wednesday as saying Brussels would conduct an internal investigation into the trading of credit default swaps related to ...

AIB caused the event when it skipped payments on subordinated bonds this month. This trumps ISDA’s ruling last week that a restructuring event had occurred when AIB changed terms on subordinated bonds ...