Credit-default swap. November 19, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. EST * In finance, an arrangement that provides a bondholder with insurance against default by the bond's issuer, ...

Credit default swaps (CDSs) provide protection for investors in the event that the borrower defaults on their debt or loan. Here's what you need to know.

A credit default swap is insurance against the possibility of default. Learn about their role in the financial crisis of 2007-09.

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The European sovereign debt crisis stands as the latest in a long line of similar crises. Argentina in 2001. Russia in 1998. Mexico in 1994. The list goes back into history ...

A credit derivative contract used as protection against a potential default on a debt security or for speculation. An investor buying a credit default swap pays a regular fee to transfer the risk ...

Credit default swaps are insurance-like contracts that promise to cover losses on certain securities in the event of a default. They typically apply to municipal bonds, corporate debt and mortgage ...

Credit-default swaps are back in the headlines --- and that's not good. Here's how to make sense of the financial instrument. Debt-ceiling jitters put obscure instrument back in spotlight.

A single credit-default swap trade, worth just €5 million, may have sparked Deutsche Bank’s share-price slump on Friday and is being probed. Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar ...

As the SEC noted, “Rule 9j-1(a)(6) will require that security-based swap market participants take care that their legitimate market activities remain within the scope of the typical lender ...

A credit default swap is a form of insurance on bonds that investors buy and sell. When it looks like a bond issuer might have trouble paying, its CDS prices soar because the bonds are more risky.