Article: LETTER TO NEIL BAROFSKY

Article: RECOGNIZING PROGRESS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN DEVELOPING ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... create central counterparties for credit default swaps with federal oversight, New York will ... September 22, New York noted that credit default swaps were unregulated and had played a major ... York had determined that some credit default swaps were subject to regulation under state ...

Article: DTCC Introduces Major Enhancements to Credit Default ...
PR Newswire;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... introduced a number of major enhancements to its credit default swaps matching service to handle credit default swaps indices (such as iBoxx and DJ CDX), as well as credit default swaps on Asia-Pacific corporate credits and sovereign credits ...

Article: Credit-default swaps grab attention; Strategy ...
Pensions & Investments;  January 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... buying single-name or asset-backed credit default swaps to beef up returns and provide downside protection ... prompted heavier use of single-name credit default swaps. Credit default swaps allow an investor, through a counterparty ...

Article: Equity Default Swaps May Get Boost from Expanded ...
Daily News;  March 25, 2004 ;     443 words ... ... promotion of a new platform that allows the trading of new equity default swaps alongside established credit default swaps. According to a statement from GFI Group, equity default swaps work like credit default swaps, paying out when the stock ...

Article: SEC head asks for reins on credit default swaps
AP Worldstream;  October 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... quickly rein in the market for credit default swaps, complex investments partly blamed ... roughly $60 trillion market for credit default swaps lacks transparency, is unregulated ... legislation to regulate the market for credit default swaps, which are complex insurance and ...

Article: Is there money in misfortune? A once-obscure market for ...
The Economist (US);  July 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... seem. Until recently, the market for default swaps had been slow to pick up. Last year ... and some $170 billion-worth of default swaps were written. In the first six months ... volatility as by falling credit quality. Default swaps are a good way to take a pure punt ...

Article: New York State Insurance Regulations May Impact Protection ...
Mondaq Business Briefing;  October 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... underlying debt. Currently, credit default swaps are not regulated in the U.S. as ... opinions expressly stating that credit default swaps are not insurance contracts because ... opinion will conclude that such credit default swaps are insurance contracts and therefore ...