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 ...

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 ...

The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) has published a report analysing the credit default swaps (CDS) market, with a particular focus on single-name CDSs in terms of their market structure and ...

Du, Wenxin, Salil Gadgil, Michael Gordy, and Clara Vega. "Counterparty Risk and Counterparty Choice in the Credit Default Swap Market." Management Science 70, no. 6 (June 2024): 3808–3826.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - SEC Chairman Christopher Cox has called on Congress to pass legislation that would make so-called credit default swaps more transparent, including requiring that dealers in ...

Investors are turning to products that pay out if companies go under to shield their portfolios from a potential bust in the AI sector. Data from DTCC shows that credit default swap activity for ...

Southern Water’s credit risk has soared to a record high in recent days as hedge funds scramble to protect themselves against the possibility of default at the UK water company. The curve on the ...

NEW YORK, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The potential failure of bond insurer ACA Capital Holdings , which is struggling to make payments to some counterparties, may create confusion in settling contracts that ...

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 ...