TY - BOOK AU - Kasapis,Andrew TI - Mastering credit derivatives: a step-by-step guide to credit derivatives and structured credit SN - 9780273714859 (pbk.) U1 - 332.7KAS 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Harlow, England, New York PB - Financial Times/Prentice Hall KW - Credit derivatives KW - Credit KW - Management N1 - First published in Great Britain in 1999; Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index; Introduction -- Credit derivative instruments and applications -- Pricing a CDS and the cash bond definition -- Credit derivative documentation and regulations -- Tranched indices -- What is correlation? -- First-to-default (FTD) baskets -- Cash CDOs -- Synthetic CDOs -- Understanding tranche sensitivity -- Innovation, the credit crisis and the future ER -