A credit event is a sudden negative change in a borrower's ability to meet financial obligations, triggering settlements in ...

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 ...

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 ...

One year after Lehman Brothers developed a credit default swap that referenced preferred securities, eight dealers have come up with a standard form of documentation for this product, which was ...

With most overseas markets outpacing the S&P 500 last year and a significant number of U.S. companies trading at pre-financial crisis valuations, investors and advisors alike may be looking to ...

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Confidence in the credit-default swaps market may be undermined by the European Union's plan to resolve the euro region's sovereign debt crisis. The EU said yesterday that it ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spreads on U.S. government credit default swaps, market-based gauges of the risk of a sovereign default, have ticked higher amid market concerns over the U.S. government shutdown.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spreads on U.S. government credit default swaps (CDS), market-based gauges of the risk of a sovereign default, ticked lower on Monday amid market optimism that the longest federal ...

As Oracle pours money into artificial intelligence, investors are finding it more and more expensive to insure against a potential AI meltdown. The price of Oracle’s five-year credit default swaps hit ...

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 ...