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July 2009

CDS: Sweet SNACs?


The CDS market is hoping that the move to central clearing will silence its critics. It could be disappointed.




This month should see the conclusion of the credit derivatives market’s moves to reinvent itself as a more stable and less risky industry by moving to centralized clearing in both the US and Europe. This has seen both markets adopt new CDS contracts: in the US the Standard North American Contract (SNAC) and in Europe the Standard European Contract or SEC (it’s a good job no-one had got to that acronym first). The US contract was introduced and began trading on April 8 this year – a process...


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