A credit default swap (CDS) is a particular type of swap designed to transfer the credit exposure of fixed-income products to another party.

Credit default swaps (CDSs) provide protection for investors in the event that the borrower defaults on their debt or loan. Here's what you need to know.

For example, it is still not clear whether credit default swaps are securities — and therefore under the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission — or insurance tools that come under the ...

They're back in the headlines. As the United States edges closer to the deadline for a debt default, Wall Street speculators are hoping to capitalize on rising risk by trading credit-default swaps ...

Contracts like credit-default swaps can indeed bring benefits. However, with rising connectivity -- as webs of CDS contracts grow more dense, for example -- things change dramatically.

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 ...

Credit default swaps are like insurance for investors. Buyers pay a fee to protect themselves in case the borrower — in this case the U.S. government — can't repay their debt.

Credit default swaps are like insurance for investors. Buyers pay a fee to protect themselves in case the borrower — in this case the U.S. government — can't repay their debt.

Credit default swaps are insurance-like contracts that promise to cover losses on certain securities in the event of a default.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 -- In what may shape up to be the most expensive payout ever in the credit-default swap market, sellers of insurance against a debt default by Lehman Brothers will have to pay 91 ...