Credit Derivatives: Market Development
Interactive

Credit Derivatives: Market Development

Intuition Publishing
Updated Sep 24, 2020

The credit derivatives market has grown significantly since the mid-1990s. Initially the objective was offloading credit risk exposure in banks loans by offering investors a return in exchange for taking on credit risk. Over the next two decades, the market rapidly developed in terms of both size and product types. Here we look at the development of the credit derivatives market.