A timely guide to understanding and implementing credit derivatives Credit derivatives are here to stay and will continue to play a role in finance in the future. But what will that role be? What issues and challenges should be addressed? And what lessons can be learned from the credit mess?...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to credit risk -- Credit rating models -- Approaches for measuring probability of default (PD) -- Exposure at default (EAD) and loss given default (LGD) -- Validation and stress testing of credit risk models -- Portfolio assessment of...