A credit default swap (CDS) is a contract that protects lenders from borrower default. Learn how a CDS works, why they’re ...

CIRT 2023-2 and CIRT 2023-3 transferred a combined $926 million of mortgage credit risk to private insurers and reinsurers. Fannie Mae said Monday it has executed two credit insurance risk transfer ...

Ally Financial has joined the ranks of banks doing deals known as synthetic credit-risk transfers. These deals—for a price—might make lenders look less risky for certain purposes. They don’t transfer ...

Learn how credit default insurance protects against borrower default risks through credit derivatives like swaps, helping investors manage credit exposure efficiently.

[Update 1: An earlier version of this article stated Senator Mike Crapo was from Indiana. It is now corrected to say Idaho.] A bipartisan group of Senate Banking Committee members wrote a letter ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. plans to sell credit risk on a $531 million portfolio of adjustable-rate mortgages, a new kind of offering by the bank and the latest example of the industry’s efforts to de-risk ...

The transaction was secured by interests in a portfolio of eleven planned communities under development across Texas. A financial tool that has made waves in recent years could resurge with a ...

A veteran of alternative investment management has started pitching a new type of securitization he says would allow banks to cut the carbon footprint of their balance sheets. Andrew Hohns, a former ...

An expert Q&A on the impact of legislation informally known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) (Pub. L. 119-21) on the tax credit transfer market and the practical implications for project ...

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