Credit default swaps (CDSs) provide protection for investors in the event that the borrower defaults on their debt or loan.

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, ...

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 ...

Imagine you run a small business in India and take a loan of ₹1 crore at a floating interest rate of 8%. Over the next year, ...

Credit default swap (CDS) spreads measure the premium to the risk-free interest rate that a bank can expect to pay in the market for 5-year loans. The higher the CDS for any given bank ...

Corporate debt’s halcyon days are showing signs of fading, with trade wars damping what had been a relentless demand for ...

Industry groups have warned that proposed changes to counterparty credit rules risk chilling a market for bespoke credit ...

According to Markit, a leading provider of CDS market data, Canadian banks boast some of the lowest risk levels in the industry This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

Credit default swaps on Credit Suisse rallied sharply on Tuesday following ... with UBS ahead of the planned merger between the two former rivals. Five-year CDS on Credit Suisse fell to 127bp on ...

"The seller of the CDS is like an insurance company — it collects premiums for selling credit default swaps and then hopes that the amounts it pays out on defaults that occur cost less than the ...

Let's cycle back to that. Let's go through this. In 1999 you started looking at the possibility of doing CDS [credit default swap] deals on mortgage loans. What brought that about? Tell me that story.