Credit derivative product companies (cdpcs)
Zombie firms are first Dodd-Frank major swap participants
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New York-based credit derivatives product company Primus Guaranty is planning a new credit protection venture to write credit default swaps on corporate and sovereign debt and some triple-A rated structured...
New York-based credit derivatives product company (CDPC) Primus Guaranty is planning a new venture to write credit default swap (CDS) protection on corporate and sovereign debt and some AAA rated structured...
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The credit downturn has coupled with unprecedented fear over counterparty risk to stymie opportunities for credit derivatives product companies. Some market participants are investigating restructuring, but is there a way forward? By Mark Pengelly
Primus looks to collateral posting
Primus Guaranty, the Bermuda-based credit derivatives product company (CDPC) and asset manager, is considering setting up a new entity to sell credit protection. But unlike its existing business model, the venture would post collateral. CDPCs sell protection...
Primus downgrade prompts questions over CDPCs
The prospects for credit derivative product companies (CDPCs) have worsened in recent months following several credit events, despite the resilience of the vehicles in the early part of the financial crisis. Primus Financial Products, a specialist seller...
A free lunch and the credit crunch
Monoline insurers act as triple-A guarantors of the senior risks in structured finance. A purchaser of credit insurance or protection from a monoline may argue that they take only a small amount of the counterparty risk that is a common side-effect of...
Athilon Capital put on rating review
Moody's Investors Service placed the AAA counterparty rating of credit derivatives product company (CDPC) Athilon Capital on watch for downgrade on July 9. CDPCs write protection on senior credit default swaps and tranches of securitisations in exchange...
CDPCs under pressure
Credit derivatives product companies were the talk of the town at the start of 2007, with a handful of new entities launched last year. But how has the turmoil in the credit markets affected these vehicles? Radi Khasawneh reports
Voldstad on the birth of DPCs
Connie Voldstad was head of JP Morgan's first dedicated swaps desk, established Merrill Lynch's AAA-rated derivatives product company, and was one of the six-strong team charged with winding down Long-Term Capital Management. His latest project is a new...
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