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(CDS).  
A term used to describe a financial instrument which displays characteristics of both debt and equity.


A variety of swap agreement that enables the effective transfer of credit risk from one party to the other.
Such instruments might be designed to be an intermediate (or mezzanine) category of capital between equity and debt, or to have some of the risk absorbing characteristics of equity and, ideally, the tax efficiency of debt.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[BCDS]]
* [[Convertible debt]]
* [[Constant maturity credit default swap]]
* [[Mezzanine]]
* [[Credit default swap index]]
* [[Warrant]]
* [[Credit risk]]
* [[International Swaps and Derivatives Association]]
* [[Swap overlay]]
* [[Putting a limit on losses]]
 
 
===Other links===
[http://www.treasurers.org/cdsloanpricing Credit Default Swap based loan pricing, ACT 2008]


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[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]

Revision as of 09:18, 9 October 2013

A term used to describe a financial instrument which displays characteristics of both debt and equity.

Such instruments might be designed to be an intermediate (or mezzanine) category of capital between equity and debt, or to have some of the risk absorbing characteristics of equity and, ideally, the tax efficiency of debt.


See also