Consider that the probability of a reference entity defaulting during a year conditional on no earlier defaults to be 2%; assume that defaults always happen halfway through a year; payments made on a CDS are made once a year, at the end of the year; assume the risk-free rate is 5% with continuous compounding and the recovery rate is 40%. We will value a new credit default swap. We are buying protection on an entity. CDS is 3-years. What is the required spread for a new issue? A. 103.63bps B. 98.32bps C. 132.53bps D. 124.49bps

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