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, ...

In context, a very basic example of a credit default swap might look something like this: Linda (borrower) takes out a 30-year fixed mortgage from ABC Bank (buyer). Her monthly payment is $1,200. ABC ...

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

A credit default swap (CDS) is a contract that allows one party (an investor) to transfer some or all risk to a third party for a period of time.

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 ...

US government 6-month credit default swap spreads widen. By Reuters. April 11, 2025 3:46 PM UTC Updated April 11, 2025. A screen shows trading indexes at the New York Stock ...

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.

Credit Default Swaps, AIG, and the Taxpayer. By Peter J. Wallison. AEIdeas. May 18, 2009. Immediately after the administration announced last week that it would be sending legislation to Congress ...

With this approval, ICE Swap Trade can now offer single-name credit default swaps (CDS) trading for its dealer and institutional customers on its SBSEF, adding to ICE’s suite of execution ...

The cost of insuring the bonds of Credit Suisse Group AG against default in the near-term is approaching a rarely-seen level that typically signals serious investor concerns. The last recorded ...

Journal of Political Economy 81, pp. 637-654. Blanco, Roberto, Simon Brennan, and Ian W. Marsh. 2005. “An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamic Relation between Investment-Grade Bonds and Credit Default ...