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Credit-default swaps are stirring controversy in markets again, a decade after they played a key role in the 2008 financial crisis. These contracts, known as CDS, are a type of insurance against a ...

Financial derivatives have greatly enhanced the range of tools available for managing financial risks. Currently, derivatives are widely used to mitigate and reallocate the financial risk related to ...

The credit risk in U.S. banks' derivatives trading fell in the third quarter as financial markets continued to stabilize, a top regulator said Friday. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ...

While derivatives emerged as a bad word during the financial crisis, the National Credit Union Administration believes its share insurance fund may be safer if more credit unions used them. NCUA’s ...

The credit derivatives market in the past 12 months has been dominated by the launch of various tradable indices. They have proved a phenomenal success, increasing liquidity and transparency and, as a ...

SG CIB plans to launch an investable CDS index before the end of the year. The bank hopes that the new index, to be called Credindex, will become a benchmark for the market and facilitate retail ...

STRASBOURG, France, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Banks must be forced to clear centrally their $30 trillion off-exchange credit derivative trades and cut risk for investors, the European Union's top financial ...