In 2007 when foreclosures on home loans rose to high levels, AIG and other financial institutions that had invested in credit ...

AIG was effectively allowing the banks to print money willy-nilly. … Did the regulators know generally where the credit default swaps were in the system, in other words, where the counterparty ...

Many of the institutions that received the Fed payments were owed money by A.I.G. because they had bought its derivatives, known as credit-default swaps — in essence, a type of insurance ...

The insurance giant AIG had been selling credit default swaps for years, collecting tiny premiums, confident that the mortgage market wouldn’t collapse, and that they’d never have to pay out a ...

The years since the financial crisis have shown that American International Group would have destroyed substantial value even if it had never written a single credit default swap. The business had ...

A credit default swap is a type of swap designed to transfer the credit exposure of fixed-income products. It can reference either a single name or an index of names. For the duration of the contract, ...

This article was first published in March 2008. We have since updated the credit default swap ratings so they reflect the current positions. The whole point about the 'credit crunch' - is that it ...

Spreads on U.S. one-year credit default swaps (CDS) - market-based gauges of the risk of a default - widened to 49 basis ...

It failed to fully appreciate the implications for AIG’s credit default swaps. It failed to understand that its own actions were bringing us to the brink of financial Armageddon. If there is a ...

In my paper, I calculated the intrinsic value of BTC at the then current credit default swap (CDS) rates and total liabilities of the G-20 nations. This dynamic calculation will increase in value as ...

Compare this to Lehman Brothers’ default $600 billion of on-balance-sheet exposure, as well as multiples of that in off-balance-sheet derivatives and credit default swaps (CDS ... Remember, the rumor ...

AIG only had a few hundred billion. Who has the rest? Are there really $64 trillion of… Economy Oct 06 Can you explain, simply, what a credit default swap is? Question/Comment: Can you explain ...