Credit default swaps (CDS) provide insurance against the default of a debt issuer. With a CDS, the buyer pays a premium to a seller for this protection. If the issuer defaults, the seller compensates ...

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 ...

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 ...

Capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), on Friday, allowed mutual funds to buy and sell credit default swaps (CDS) to improve liquidity in the corporate bond market.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 -- In what may shape up to be the most expensive payout ever in the credit-default swap market, sellers of insurance against a debt default by Lehman Brothers will have to pay 91.375 ...

NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Liquidity in credit default swaps is expanding across more companies while credit spreads in both the investment grade and high-yield sectors have rallied in the United ...

Nomura Asset Management’s Richard Hodges began the year by buying credit default swaps, worried that rate cut bets were becoming too aggressive. He reduced the hedge when the cost of protection ...