In 2007 an international financial crisis developed and specialised financial products known as credit derivatives … experts have suggested in controlling the perceived excesses of the credit derivatives industry. These solutions were then … critically examined, by interviewing financial experts who deal in credit derivatives, to determine whether these solutions are …

credit derivatives. This paper will examine the governmental and private regulatory systems that aided the proliferation of …

Credit derivatives are among the most criticized financial instruments in the current credit crises. Given their short … in credit derivatives, especially in turbulent market conditions.Many credit portfolios have been struggling to find out … data analysis and statistical methods.In Chapter One we provide a snapshot of credit derivatives market by summarizing …

computational methods for the valuation of credit derivatives.Compared with synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) or …

relevant crop.Weather derivatives - which farmers may employ to ensure crops against adverse temperatures -do exist, but these … are used chiefly by energy companies. SomeSouth African over-the-counter weather derivatives are available, but trading in … these is rare andseldom used.The goal of this dissertation is to establish a pricing equation for weather derivatives …

of investors to hedge this risk, the market uses creditderivatives.The South African credit derivatives market is still … most popular credit derivatives in theSouth African financial markets. …

price credit derivatives, namely collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) using indifference.We develop a numerical algorithm … traded assets creates a veryincomplete market. We explain the market-observed prices of such credit derivatives via therisk …