Questions Over CDS Amid Pay-out Wrangle
By Lisa Pollack, Robin Wigglesworth and David Oakley
Published November 27 2011 Financial Times
Since their creation in the 1990s, credit default swaps, a form of insurance against defaults of loans and bonds, have emerged as a vital component of the global financial system, with about $28,000bn of contracts currently outstanding.
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