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Counting on the counterparty
High-profile banking failures have led to uncertainty over the ability of credit derivatives counterparties to honour their side of the trade. Contingent credit default swaps, or CCDS, are designed to mitigate this risk. But will plans for a central…
New year, new hope for euro corporate bonds
Now that issuers have woken up to the unpalatable truth that wide spreads are here to stay - for the short term at least - a mini-rally in European bond issuance has ensued. Laurence Neville looks at how the corporate bond market is adjusting to its new…
Market graphic - The 2008-2010 credit cycle
Default rates are on the way up, but by how much? Ulf Erlandsson and Graham Rennison, quantitative analysts at Barclays Capital, use data on credit conditions to predict default rates and economic growth rates over the next two years of the cycle