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 ...

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 that ...

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 ...

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As Bear Stearns careened toward its eventual fire sale to JPMorgan Chase last weekend, the cost of protecting its debt, through an instrument called a credit default swap, began to rise rapidly as ...

The SEC’s temporary de minimis thresholds for security-based swap dealing activity ($8 billion for credit default swaps and ...

Oracle default fears surge as its credit-default swaps jump to a two-year high, signaling rising investor anxiety. The five-year CDS spread nears 80 basis points, up from 55 earlier this year. The ...

Investors are getting nervous the U.S. government might struggle to pay its debt — and they are snapping up insurance in case it defaults. The cost of insuring exposure to U.S. government debt has ...

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.

The Dodd–Frank Act continues to spawn new rules more than a decade after its passage. Our Financial Services & Products Group reviews a rule finalized 10 years after its proposal that protects ...

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 compensates ...