Showing posts with label CDS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CDS. Show all posts

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Bank Liabilities and CDS

Great post by baselinscenario.com with the following scary chart of banks' CDS spreads.

Here is a short CDS primer. For a 1 year CDS Spread S the implied probability of default p is S/(1-R) where R is the Recovery rate.