CDS investors step up the fight for their rights

The influence of investors in credit default swaps has conspicuously failed to match the growth of the market itself. But a recent restructuring could be the watershed moment that changes the credit markets for ever. Has the ground shifted beneath corporate issuers’ feet without them even noticing? Louise Bowman reports.

Short shrift for CDS holders

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Even fundamental changes in any market can have a way of creeping up on you. It is often hard to look back and point to one particular factor or event that marked the turning point. But the resolution last month of a seemingly fairly arcane dispute between bondholders and UK credit-checking firm Experian is being hailed by some as a turning point in the relationship between corporates and the fixed-income market – or, more specifically, corporates and the CDS market – in restructuring disputes.

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