This thesis is about the credit default swap market and its development from the moment of its origin to the present. The focus is on the peripheral countries of eurozone, especially on Greece. The first part of the thesis is about the characteristics of CDS contracts, settlement of contracts and the relationship between CDS and insurance contracts. The other parts of the thesis are about the crisis in Greece, the CDS on sovereign greek bonds and the credit event. The last part of the thesis is about CDS on other sovereign bonds of peripheral countries in eurozone which are Spain, Italy and Portugal.

Modelos de credit score são usualmente desenvolvidos somente com informações dos proponentes aceitos. Neste trabalho foram consideradas estratégias que podem ser utilizadas para o desenvolvimento de modelos de credit score com a inclusão das informações dos rejeitados. Foram avaliadas as seguintes técnicas de inferência de rejeitados: classificação dos rejeitados como clientes Maus, parcelamento, dados aumentados, uso de informações de mercado e ainda a estratégia de aceitar proponentes rejeitados para acompanhamento e desenvolvimento de novos modelos de risco de crédito. Para a avaliação e comparação dos modelos foram utilizadas as medidas de desempenho: estatística de Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS), área sob a curva de Lorentz (ROC), área entre as curvas de distribuição acumulada dos escores (AEC), diferença entre as taxas de inadimplência nos intervalos do escore definidos pelos decis e coeficiente de Gini. Concluiu-se que dentre as quatro primeiras técnicas avaliadas, o uso de informaçõoes de mercado foi a que apresentou melhor desempenho. Quanto à estratégia de aceitar proponentes rejeitados, observou-se que há um ganho em relação ao modelo ajustado só com base nos proponentes aceitos. / Credit scoring models are usually built using only information of accepted applicants. This text considered strategies that can be used to develop credit score models with inclusion of the information of the rejects. We evaluated the techniques of reject inference: classification of rejected customers as bad, parceling, augmentation, use of market information and the strategy of accepting rejected proponents for monitoring and developing new models of credit risk. For the evaluation and comparison between models were used performance measures: Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics (KS), the area under the Lorentz Curve (ROC), area between cumulative distribution curves of the scores (AEC), difference among the delinquency rate in the score buckets based on deciles (DTI) and the Gini coefficient. We concluded that among the first four techniques evaluated, the fourth (use of market information) had the best performance. For the strategy to accept rejected bidders, it was observed that there is a gain in relation to the model that uses only information of accepted applicants.

Modelos de customer scoring são utilizados para mensurar o risco de crédito de clientes de instituições financeiras. Neste trabalho, são apresentadas três estratégias que podem ser utilizadas para o desenvolvimento desses modelos. São discutidas as vantagens de cada uma dessas estratégias, bem como os modelos e a teoria estatística associada a elas. Algumas medidas de performance usualmente utilizadas na comparação de modelos de risco de crédito são descritas. Modelos para cada uma das estratégias são ajustados utilizando-se dados reais obtidos de uma instituição financeira. A performance das estratégias para esse conjunto de dados é comparada a partir de medidas usualmente utilizadas na avaliação de modelos de risco de crédito. Uma simulação também é desenvolvida com o propósito de comparar o desempenho das estratégias em condições controladas. / Customer scoring models are used to measure the credit risk of financial institution´s customers. In this work, we present three strategies that can be used to develop these models. We discuss the advantages of each of the strategies, as well as the models and statistical theory related with them. We fit models for each of these strategies using real data of a financial institution. We compare the strategies´s performance through some measures that are usually used to validate credit risk models. We still develop a simulation to study the strategies under controlled conditions.

<p><font face="Times-Roman" size="3"><font face="Times-Roman" size="3"><font face="Times-Roman" size="3"><font face="Times-Roman" size="3"> <p align="left">The purpose of this research effort is to contribute to the discussion on consumer indebtedness and poverty, analyse the causes and levels of indebtedness as well as the role played by both the consumer and the credit provider in the growth of consumer indebtedness among the sampled population of the Cape Flats area of West Bank in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The methodology used in this study included both qualitative and quantitative research approaches. The research methods comprised of a comprehensive literature study and secondary data analysis, immersion in the case study area in order to observe the consumer credit market dynamics and its trends. In-depth informal and semi-formal interviewing, focus group discussions as well as a questionnaire survey were also used to gather primary data.</p> </font></font></font></font></p>

This paper seeks to fill a gap in the literature regarding the consequences of banning ‘naked’ Credit Default Swaps (CDS). In particular, I use the European Union’s Ban on ‘naked” Sovereign CDS as an event study to evaluate the impact that banning such derivative products has on the price discovery process in the credit markets. Using both Granger Causality tests and a Vector Error Correction Model, I find that before November 1, 2012, CDS are the clear price leader in the credit markets. However, since the official date the regulation was put into effect, CDS’ price leadership was eroded. Moreover, after the ban, CDS and Bond Yield Spreads are no longer cointegrated in the long run, suggesting that different pricing mechanisms now exist between the two securities

The letter of credit continues to play an indispensable role in the financing and securing of international commercial transactions. Its usefulness and efficacy derives primarily from the fact that it is independent from the underlying relationship between buyer and seller. In a considerable number of cases, however, the independence of the letter of credit has been challenged as a result of fraud in the underlying transaction. After analyzing recent reforms of the regulatory framework governing letters of credit, this fraud exception to the independence principle will be reappraised in the light of current developments in Canada and the United States. Finally, the author argues that arbitration can and indeed should play an increasingly important role in the resolution of international letter of credit disputes involving fraud in the transaction.

<p><font face="Times-Roman" size="3"><font face="Times-Roman" size="3"><font face="Times-Roman" size="3"><font face="Times-Roman" size="3"> <p align="left">The purpose of this research effort is to contribute to the discussion on consumer indebtedness and poverty, analyse the causes and levels of indebtedness as well as the role played by both the consumer and the credit provider in the growth of consumer indebtedness among the sampled population of the Cape Flats area of West Bank in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The methodology used in this study included both qualitative and quantitative research approaches. The research methods comprised of a comprehensive literature study and secondary data analysis, immersion in the case study area in order to observe the consumer credit market dynamics and its trends. In-depth informal and semi-formal interviewing, focus group discussions as well as a questionnaire survey were also used to gather primary data.</p> </font></font></font></font></p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 1999. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 265 p. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-254).

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