Enron collapse a test, not threat, to credit market

Enron’s bankruptcy may be the biggest test of the credit derivatives market to date. But when the dust settles, its most profound effect may be on credit investors’ preference for managed portfolio transactions. Rob Dwyer reports

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Enron’s December 2 Chapter 11 filing was the largest corporate bankruptcy in US history. Estimates of total notional credit exposure to the Houston-based trading giant range from Standard & Poor’s (S&P) $3.3 billion to educated guesses by market participants that run to several times that amount.

But as the total value of credit derivatives relating to Enron, either as a reference entity or counterparty, is slowly revealed, the overriding market sentiment seems to be one of relief. “Rather

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