Banks, for example, purchase credit default swaps to hedge against potential losses by borrowers. Pension funds, insurance companies, bond holders, and other institutions also use swaps for the ...

Some investors use CDS contracts to speculate on the ... The primary purpose and main advantage of credit default swaps is risk protection or insurance against a negative credit event for ...

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 ...

Under the current regulatory framework, Irdai allows insurers to deal in Rupee Interest Rate Derivatives in the form of ...

Currently, insurers are allowed to trade in rupee interest rate derivatives such as forward rate agreements, interest rate ...

8. Credit default swap (CDS) spread. The CDS spread is a market-based measure of a country’s level of default risk. For the countries with a CDS spread, we use it to determine the CFR Sovereign ...

Bloomberg Trading Facility Limited’s multilateral trading facility, BMTF, is a robust trading platform for trading cash bonds, repos, credit default swaps (“CDS”), interest rate swaps ...

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 ...

How much of that complacency ... was driven by the fact that everybody had laid off the risk through the use of credit default swaps? I don't think that was a central feature. I think the ...