If borrowers default, money is still lost but by sellers of credit protection, not banks.
There are rumours that Greek banks have also been keen sellers of credit-default swaps on sovereign Greek debt, in effect doubling up on their exposure to a debt crisis.
Square is revolutionizing millions of everyday transactions between buyers and sellers with its free credit card reader for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices, allowing anyone to accept credit cards anywhere, anytime.
That scheme involved the purchases over the Internet of stolen credit card from sellers believed to be located in Russia.
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Through its Amazon Capital Services subsidiary, Amazon is helping the sellers on its website to access credit that is in short supply at the moment from banks.
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The deal came despite a downturn in shipping , in part caused by banks' hesitation to issue the letters of credit that assure transactions between sellers and buyers of cargo.
The Fed purchases, expected to extend through the first half of the year and to broaden to more assets, will cause sellers to substitute slightly riskier, longer maturity credit instruments.
The sellers of the pictured homes are offering buyers a credit equal to six months of real estate property taxes.
Corporations became heavy sellers of auction rate securities last year even before the credit crisis, because of accounting rule changes that made them less advantageous.
That, in turn, forced sellers to spread the roughly 2% fees they incurred on credit card transactions among all customers, regardless of how they paid.
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Mobile credit card company Square is making it easier for buyers and sellers to make everyday transactions with its card reader.
Credit default swaps are generally traded by phone-based brokers who match buyers and sellers at large investment banks and other institutions.
Sadly, even though Balanced see themselves in an escrow role for buyers and sellers, that is where it ends because they still depend on transactions and chargebacks flowing through the monopolistic credit card networks.
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They do not leverage their potential as a reputation aggregator for buyers or sellers in an online marketplace and unlike WordPress they ignore a vast swath of the world where banks and credit cards are simply unavailable.
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After Credit Suisse stopped issuing new shares, the number of the ETN's shares borrowed by short sellers nearly quadrupled overnight, from nearly 600, 000 on Feb. 21 to about 2.2 million a day later, according to Data Explorers.
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