Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CREDIT EVENT
  
  A term used in credit swap and some other credit related contracts. The specified credit event in each contract is defined by the parties to suit their particular needs. Typical specified credit events are bankruptcy, insolvency, credit rating downgrade or failure to make a required scheduled payment. Note that for a credit swap transaction, these events do not refer to occurrences or change impacting one of the contract counter parties. Instead they refer to events applicable to the underlying reference asset. The defined events must be well-defined and unambiguous.
  
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