Derivatives

“Counterparties to derivative contracts effectively get a super-senior claim to each other’s assets,” says Craig Pirrong, a finance professor at the University of Houston. For example, in 2008 Goldman Sachs extended credit to CIT, a troubled American lender, but in the form of a “total return swap”, a type of derivative, rather than a ... ................
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