BBA: $8 Trillion Market for Credit Derivatives

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LONDON—The global market for credit derivatives will exceed $8 trillion by the end of 2006, according to a survey of 30 leading market participants conducted by the British Bankers Association (BBA).

While the BBA, which issued its bi-annual credit derivatives report last week, does not focus on the technologies used to conduct credit derivatives trading, many would agree that IT has been crucial to the market's growth (see chart).

Earliest BBA data shows the value of contracts traded growing

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