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Models, derivatives, and management crc press book. Funded credit derivatives are instruments where the. The end result of an asset swap is to separate the credit and interest rate risks embedded in the fixedrate instrument. Finance and economics discussion series divisions of research. This is well understood in theory if not always in practice by banks and other lending. A payout under a credit derivative is triggered by a credit event associated with the credit derivatives reference asset or reference entity.
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