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Unfunded credit default swap

A credit default swap in which the protection seller makes no payments to the protection buyer unless there is a credit event. Since unfunded credit default swaps leave the protection seller exposed to the counterparty risk of the protection buyer, they usually take place only if the protection seller is a highly rated entity such as a monoline insurance company.

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