A credit default swap (CDS) is a particular type of swap designed to transfer the credit exposure of fixed-income products to another party.

If bad mortgages made the financial system ill, credit default swaps helped spread the sickness. Now the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is calling for the CDS market to be ...

With the onset of the financial crisis, a growing share of OTC swaps are traded through clearinghouses, which significantly reduce the risk that a counterparty will default on the deal.

But the Senate report found that financial firms have devised strategies, often equity swaps or stock loans routed through offshore transactions, to duck the tax requirement.

In its complaint, Bloomberg, which intends to launch a trading platform once the CFTC’s current swap execution facility (SEF) rulemaking is completed, said that the rule’s “disparate treatment” of ...

CME Group said it will start offering one-pot margining of positions in interest-rate swaps and futures, beginning May 7.

Representatives from TRON and MOVE, two of the protocols whose tokens are being held by the treasury of World Liberty Financial (WLFI), have come out to deny they entered a token swap agreement ...

The Bethlehem Area School District Board of Directors approved a measure Monday that officials say will improve the district’s financial picture.