March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
3h 48m
English
In the first two contracts, credit default swaps (CDS) and total rate of return swaps (TRORS), the protection buyer is exposed to the risk that its counterparty, the protection seller, does not meet its insurance obligations. Can we really mitigate that risk? Wonder of financial engineering, we can. Let us analyse credit-linked notes (CLN) (Figure 18.3).

In the first step, a protection buyer, e-Bank, borrows from Alpha Bank, in issuing a note (a bond). It receives the capital/principal on this issue. In the second step, e-Bank pays the interest on the note to Alpha Bank, ...
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