Fee and Investment Income
Credit Derivatives
Credit derivatives are a rapidly growing over-the-counter derivative market. They combine derivatives and securitization to make credit risk a tradeable commodity. It is a complex, multidimensional business of repackaging credit assets and creating structures that enable participants to extract maximum value.

Maple’s credit derivatives desk is a small yet multidisciplined team that brings years of experience in financial structuring, credit analysis and computer science to this highly technical business line. The desk seeks to create synthetic portfolios that are better quality and lower risk than those typically available from investment banks. The teams small size, low overheads and efficient capital also enable it to move more quickly, and more profitably, than larger competitors to capture the most value from packaging and transferring credit risk.