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- Ram Charan Grades the President
- The influential management guru gives President Obama and his team high marks for their management of the economic crisis and discusses what the auto industry must do to right itself. Think of the Obama administration...
- Articles 2009-04-23
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- SEC Opens Door to Centralized Credit-Default Swaps
- In an attempt to make what it sees as the shadowy dealings of the credit-default-swap market clearer to the outside world, the Securities and Exchange Commission today approved temporary exemptions that allow at least one firm, London-based LCH Clearnet Ltd., to operate as a central counterparty for the swaps. The...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Credit Default Swaps are the Real Stress in Bank Tests
- Stress tests to be revealed Thursday will likely show that while subprime, corporate and commercial real estate loans are doing their fair share of tearing apart bank balance sheets, the real gremlin in the banking engine is the credit default swap, or CDS. Credit default swaps are...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Credit-default swaps lose steam in Japan.
- Sep 23, 2003 (The Asian Wall Street Journal - ABIX via COMTEX) The Japanese CJ50 index fell to a low of 31.63 points in the week ending 19 September 2003. The index measures the prices of credit-default swaps issued against 50 Japanese firms. Credit-default ...
- Research articles 2003-09-23
- Don't Ban Naked Credit Default Swaps If the Law Can't Be Enforced
- Ravi Nagarajan submits: There has been much debate in recent days regarding whether the market for Credit Default Swaps (CDS) should be more tightly regulated. Let’s take a look at the nature of credit default swaps and whether arguments for tighter regulation have merit. What are “Naked” Credit Default...
- External links 2009-03-29
- Questioning Conventional Wisdom on Credit Default Swaps
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak One part of the Obama Administration’s financial reform plan is tighter regulation of credit default swaps – those previously unregulated derivatives that brought down AIG and nearly the entire financial sector with it. One of the problems with AIG was that its...
- External links 2009-06-26
- Improving Performance With Credit Default Swaps
- Better diversification could have improved performance for a lot of unfortunate credit asset managers in recent years. Credit default swaps originated as a means to provide simple insurance to lenders. However, they have evolved into actively traded securities and building blocks of structured instruments such as collateralized debt obligations, credit...
- White papers 2004-01-14
- Meltdown's Next Issue: Settling Trillions in Credit Default Swaps
- One of the next shoes to drop in the financial crisis will soon clunk down at a privately-held clearing house on Wall Street. The Depository Trust and Clearing Corp., which settles debts related to finance, will plow into resolving what could be trillions of dollars worth of...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Clearinghouse for Credit Default Swaps Moves Ahead
- Trading murky derivatives known as Credit Default Swaps got a little closer to transparency when the Securities & Exchange Commission took steps to allow a major stock exchange and a British-owned firm to act as a clearinghouse. The SEC has granted an exemption to let NYSE Euronext,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- Fitch Webcast: Loan-Only Credit Default Swaps, June 1, 10:00 a.m. EDT
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings will host a Web cast on Thursday, June 1 at 10:00 a.m. EDT to discuss Loan-Only Credit Default Swaps LCDS and their broad implications for credit markets. E[acute accent]The International Swaps and Derivatives Association ISDA is circulating trading standards with regard to LCDS, although Fitch...
- Research articles 2006-05-30
- Credit Default Swaps
- This article offers comments to the Treasury Department in response to Notice 2004-52 requesting further information regarding credit default swaps and market participants, such as hedge funds, in credit default swap transactions. It sets forth the main reasons that market participants enter into CDSs and describes the economics of such...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Credit Default Swaps: Why I've Changed Sides
- Alex Trias submits: Time for a little honest disclaimer. So, I've been pounding away at the credit default swap market for some time, saying all sorts of nasty things about it - many of which have come to pass. I'm switching camps now. And putting my money where my...
- External links 2009-06-02
- Five Points About Credit Default Swaps That Directors Need to Know
- Ever since the financial meltdown began in earnest in August, corporate directors have been hit with a series of complex new problems -- not to mention a complex new vocabulary -- to deal with. One of them has to do with Credit Default Swaps which are complicated,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Five Things Everyone Should Know About Credit Default Swaps
- Ever since the financial meltdown began in earnest in August, corporate directors have been hit with a series of complex new problems â€" not to mention a complex new vocabulary â€" to deal with. One of them has to do with Credit Default Swaps which are complicated,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- A Note on Survival Measures and the Pricing of Options on Credit Default Swaps
- In this note the pricing of options on credit default swaps using the survival-measure-pricing technique is discussed. In particular, a modification of the famous Black (1976) futures pricing formula which applies to options on CDS, and shows how other pricing formulae can be easily derived if the dynamics of the...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Clearinghouse Pushes Ahead to Auction Credit Default Swaps
- Setting values for elusive Credit Default Swaps CDSÂ has taken a step forward when one of two new clearinghouses for their trading won regulatory approval. IntercontinentalExchange Inc., an Atlanta firm planning a clearinghouse, won approval Dec. 4 for a New York trust charter from the New York...
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Credit Default Swaps Grows 100% to $1.9T; Leading Product in $3T CDx Market: Fitch Ratings Global Credit Derivatives Survey
- NEW YORK -- The Global Credit Derivatives Market CDx expanded to $2.8 trillion of gross sold outstanding -- $3 trillion including cash collateralized debt obligations -- increasing 71% from $1.8 last year. According to Fitch Ratings latest survey of the global CDx market, single-name credit default swaps increased 100%...
- Research articles 2004-09-08
- Deutsche Bank to Make Markets in Credit Default Swaps on U.S. Leveraged Loans
- NEW YORK -- Deutsche Bank announced today it has started active market making of credit default swaps on leveraged loans LCDS. The LCDS market will allow investors to take short- or long-term positions on leverage loans and open up this private market to new investors looking for higher-yielding assets. Unlike...
- Research articles 2006-03-30
- Credit Default Swaps: The Show Isn't Over
- Andy So submits: This is a followup to my previous article, The Greatest Show on Earth. In this post, I am going to expand on watching CDS Credit Default Swaps with banks. What CDS can tell you is how much money a person is willing to pay to...
- External links 2008-09-16
- Is Insurance Exchange a 'Trade Off' for AIG's Credit Default Problem
- Did we really need to pay those American International Group traders $165 million in bonuses to keep them around? The vast majority of Americans say "No." On the other hand, more Americans would know about a wife swap than a credit default swap. AIG Chief Executive Edward...
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
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