Credit Default Swaps news from FierceFinance

You have to give Jefferies credit for dealing with market concerns about as well as it could. In this hair trigger environment, no firm wants to get blindsided by fear over its exposure to European Read more...

It's a hair-trigger environment out there in the wake of the demise of MF Global. People are wondering who's next, and the spotlight unfortunately fell on Jefferies this week. The stock tanked 20 Read more...

The term "swap execution facility" (SEF) still vexes a lot of financial services professionals who happen to work outside of the OTC derivatives markets. It's an ungainly moniker--but not as bad as Read more...

The Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) regulatory saga continues. It was big news when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a rather damning report about Goldman and other financial Read more...

Until now, the regulatory woes of big banks' credit default swaps operations were mainly about sales and marketing practices and limited to the United States, where the SEC waged a pitched battle Read more...

You have to credit Meredith Whitney with one thing: She really galvanized people to take a look at the muni market. Some have decided she and other super bears are nuts. Others are nervous and Read more...

In the battle for supremacy in the derivatives clearing business, the ICE Trust has long been a powerhouse, especially when it came to credit default swaps, where it was the only game in town for a Read more...

The Financial Times reports on a shadowy plot by Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS)--as some would like to believe--to drive down prices of credit default swaps on certain mortgage-backed securities. The point Read more...

At the peak of the housing-related financial bubble, banks had grown all too dependent on credit default swaps (CDS). The problem was that times were so good, few had the ability or inclination to Read more...

Over the past few years, the financial world has turned to the CDS market for a gauge on default risk of specific debt issues. If a company or country runs into trouble, we expect CDS spreads to Read more...