Credit default swap — concept

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Credit insurance as two cash-flow streams: the buyer pays the spread (premium leg, shrinking with survival probability), receives (1−R)·N on default (protection leg). “Set to fair” balances the present values. Debunks “the spread is the default probability” — credit triangle: ≈ λ·(1−R).

Subject: Financial derivatives

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