The author and editors take ultimate responsibility for the content. A credit default swap is, essentially, insurance purchased against the possibility of default. Credit default swaps became ...

What was the utility of the credit default swap in that case? Well, the basic concept or the original driver of credit derivatives was for banks to be able to transfer credit risk off of their ...

A credit default swap is a type of swap designed to transfer the credit exposure of fixed-income products. It can reference either a single name or an index of names. For the duration of the contract, ...

This article was first published in March 2008. We have since updated the credit default swap ratings so they reflect the current positions. The whole point about the 'credit crunch' - is that it ...

Consolidating your debt can offer some nice benefits, like having fewer bills to manage, lowering your monthly payments, potentially building your credit and even the possibility of saving money on ...

one effect you may face is credit card default. If this has happened to you, first know that you are not alone. Lately, "with high levels of credit card debt and high inflation," more and more ...

We examine the relationship between carbon emissions and the market perception of firms' default risk measured by corporate credit default swap (CDS) spreads in Japan. While corporate revenue size is ...

ICE Swap Trade offers trading of two asset classes: credit default swap (CDS) execution is available on an anonymous, all-to-all central limit order book as well as other execution methods. ICE also ...

Assets Supported: Cash bonds, repos, credit default swaps, interest rate swaps ... non-deliverable swaps*; average rate forwards and options). *FX Swap is a batch or package transaction consisting ...