Credit Default Swaps news from FierceFinance

The last thing anyone wants to do is throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. The industry's baby in this case is securitization, which ranks as perhaps the most profound financial movement... Read more...

The Greek government has escalated its war against speculators by seeking to ban hedge funds (hedge fund news) and their proxies from buying bonds offered last week. It has the support of Germany... Read more...

Are we seeing a return to those wild days of currency trading that vexed smaller nations 10 years ago? Who can forget the public spat featuring the then prime minister of Malaysia calling currency... Read more...

When we think about the hedge fund (hedge fund news) managers who made a killing betting against mortgage-related bonds we think of the likes of John Paulson. But the guy who was onto all of this... Read more...

If there's a risk of default somewhere in the world, you can bet there's a credit default swap that will be actively traded. When it comes to the Greek drama, the index of choice was the Markit... Read more...

Bloomberg offers an interesting article on a document that has much to say about the controversy over all those CDSs that Goldman Sachs (GS) bought from AIG (AIG news). The document, dug up and... Read more...

We've noted recently that some markets--discredited not too long ago--are enjoying a resurgence of sorts. The CDS and CDO markets have been on a mini-roll, that's for sure. Business Week highlights... Read more...

The bond market has been in rally mode, and that has driven down yields. Which has helped pave the way for the return of credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations that invest in them.... Read more...

Goldman Sachs' (GS) Abacus deals have raised eyebrows for a while now for those in the thick of the CDS and synthetic CDO arenas. But the New York Times really put the issues on the map with its... Read more...

The New York Yankees and Goldman Sachs (GS) have ruled their respective roosts for so long that the comparisons in the wake of the World Series were inevitable. Both have reasserted themselves as of... Read more...