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CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS
Complex financial instruments called credit default swaps (CDS) have roiled the financial markets for months. What are these things and how risky are they? Should investors worry if their mutual fund owns some of them? If a company that's been deeply involved in this area of the market goes bankrupt -- as Lehman did -- what are the ripple effects?
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The European Union is taking a fresh look at ways the derivatives market might be regulated, going beyond a recent...
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The European Association of Central Counterparty Clearing Houses (EACH), today issued its position paper “Strengthening...
...jobs into the banks as interest on things like credit cards. As a...
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Marking its first major effort to overhaul financial regulation, the Obama administration will seek new authority to...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top executives at American International Group Inc knew of potential problems in valuing...
that the market does not expect major problems out of the broader Canadian economy and financial sector.
the loss possibilities from credit-default swaps has also been a mystery to me. Anybody who knows anything about credit...
of the large derivatives dealers is an important priority for regulators. By forming a central clearing counterparty...
By Abigail Moses and Shannon D. Harrington Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street’s system for determining payments on...
Eurex, the second-largest futures market, will concentrate on Europe and not the U.S. as it offers clearing for...
Capital Management and the crisis in emerging markets in 1998, new products such as various basket indices and credit...
Clearinghouses and central counterparties should increase the capital held in their default funds to cut risk and...
(Updates with credit default swaps) NEW YORK, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Bonds of ailing auto finance and mortgage provider...
...opaque $55 trillion credit default swap market is ... to claim that the risk from ... See Dealscape post on Lehman...
...expanded to include trading in the $54.6 trillion credit-default swaps market…Cuomo is probing whether...
Fortress Investment Group has plans to open a new office in San Francisco, and Peter Briger, co-chairman of the firm...
a time when policymakers are determined to tighten regulation of the financial markets. They are pushing for OTC credit...
LEHMAN Brothers has left many creditors but it has also jeopardised trades on the credit default swap (CDS) market, a...
Intercontinental Exchange Inc., owner of the largest credit-default swap clearinghouse, started guaranteeing trades...
Around $4 billion in payments on credit default swaps protecting General Motors Corp may need to be made if the...
Hedge funds run by US manager John Paulson, one of last year’s best performers and a short- seller of UK banks, have...
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