Rochester, NY 8/28/2009 10:50:24 PM
News / Finance

Thomson New bucket auction for the first time

Thomson S.A.

Thomson that will test the organization’s new bucket auction for the first time. The decision prompted grumbling among CDS dealers, some of whom told Debtwire they may boycott the auction as they push for a failure-to-pay trigger. But they would-be holdouts will not find the public proof they need to trigger a failure-to-pay event on the French multi-media group, said a source close to the company. “Dealers and hedge counterparties who are trying to determine whether there is a failure to pay are getting themselves into a twist,”

highly legalistic world of. A requires two public sources of information to call a credit event commonly restructuring, bankruptcy or failure to pay that would trigger the swaps. Unlike the failure to pay and bankruptcy credit events, a restructuring credit event is discretionary, meaning dealers can choose whether they want to participate in an auction or not. A restructuring event also triggers a bucket auction that several dealers say they oppose because of the disparate recoveries that will result on swaps of different maturities.


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