credit derivative

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credit derivative

A financial derivative used to transfer the risk of investing in bonds, loans, or other debt.

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One last type of credit derivative is the credit spread option, which gives the buyer the right but not the obligation to pay or receive a specified credit spread for a given period.

Credit derivatives: an overview

New credit derivative instruments appear to be useful to underwriters who want to hedge the risk of a residential mortgage loan warehouse.

Credit derivatives and risk management

The second is whether macroeconomic factors might act as catalysts in initiating widespread credit crises and their associated implications for credit derivative markets.

Credit derivatives, macro risks, and systemic risks

Credit derivatives illustrate the limitations of balance sheet measurement of derivative liabilities.

The hidden effects of derivatives on bank balance sheets

Compared with the lightly regulated and speculative international markets, one of China's problems remains the lack of credit derivative products, said Gao Zhanjun, a senior trader at Beijing-based Citic Securities.

China : China to Launch Credit Default Swaps in H2

Credit derivatives are financial contracts whose value is derived primarily from an underlying asset or market quote that incorporates credit risk.

Credit derivative strategies; new thinking on managing risk and return

The worst nightmare of the regulatory community today is not the visible threat looming on the horizon, but rather the eerily tranquil scene in the marketplace for everything from loans to credit derivative swaps.

Wall Street's derivatives casino: is today's eerily tranquil scene an illusion?

Consider a credit derivative that hedges credit risk of a loan, for example.

Fair value accounting

Credit events: Contrary to an insurance policy, the settlement of a credit derivative is not triggered by an actual loss incurred by the protection buyer but by the occurrence of credit events previously agreed upon.

Credit derivatives and corporates. (Selected Topic)

For assets held in banking books, regulatory capital relief is less generous, limited to instances when the credit derivative gives a one-to-one match with the loss experience of individual banking-book positions.

Credit derivatives: just-in-time provisioning for loan losses

Financial market regulators, alert to the risk of a new Barings, are looking closely at the area of credit derivatives and the Bank of England is to issue guidance "in the near future," a spokeswoman said.