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Credit Default Swaps: The Vanilla Essence
Discipline: Derivatives & Options
First published:
In fast-paced financial environments with pressures on deal execution, and regulator focus on accountability-based governance, it’s important that financial and risk professionals understand the behaviour of credit default swaps (CDSs) for the purposes of risk management, when trading, and structuring complex products based on, the ‘plain vanilla’ CDS. In Credit Default Swaps: The Vanilla Essence, Indra Rajaratnam provides an invaluable guide to the multifaceted risk considerations that stem from the structural features of a CDS (based on the 2014 Isda Credit Derivatives Definitions).
Contents
Foreword
Preface
A credit default swap snapshot
Parties and key players
Documentation and standard trading conventions
Credit risk period, scheduled termination date and termination date
Fixed amounts, floating rate payer calculation amount and initial payment amount
Qualifying guarantee and qualifying affiliate guarantee
Reference obligation
Subordination and the senior non-preferred supplement
Outstanding principal balance and due and payable amount
Obligations and deliverable obligations
Credit event overview
Bankruptcy
Failure to pay
Repudiation/moratorium
Restructuring and redenomination
Governmental intervention and contingent convertible capital instruments
Successor determinations
Publicly available information and eligible information
Notices
Business day terms and timing rules
Event determination date and settlement methods
Auction settlement
Cash settlement
Physical settlement
Physical settlement fallback procedures
Orphaning
Fixed recovery transaction and reference obligation only trade
Novation and early termination
Economic sanctions: compliance challenges
Disclosures and regulations
Conclusion: at the ‘Exit Checkpoint’
Appendix
References