Credit Events in CDS Tranches

Hi All,

Anyone know of a resource/site that gives a simple example on how the payouts of CDS tranches work?

The few I have found don't continue after the first credit event. I want to see how further credit event payouts are calculated - ideally, seeing the payments affecting the next tranche as well.

Thanks

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Are you talking about CDS indices or CDOs?

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True but unless he clarifies it's very general... a CDS itself doesn't have tranches in the first place, and structure will depend on the product.

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Apologies for lack of clarity. Dealing with CDX Tranches.

Determining the payout when there is a credit event seems to be determined by the following:

payment = ((Notional) * (1 / weighting) * (1 - recovery)) / (Tranche width)

The tranche width is then reduced according to:

tranche width = tranche width - ((1 / weighting) * (1 - recovery))

What I am not sure about is what happens with subsequent defaults...

Questions like: Are the notional and weighting variables going to be the same in the payment equation for the next credit event?

Difficult to find an example with the numbers that would likely answer such questions.

 

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