CDR Launches Counterparty Risk Index To Track Credit Risk of Wall Street Banks Walnut Creek, California, June 17, 2008 — Credit Derivatives Research (CDR), a leading independent credit research firm, has launched the first index designed to track the credit risk of the banks and brokers who are the counterparties in most of the contracts traded in the large and rapidly growing market for credit derivatives.  The new CDR Counterparty Risk Index™ provides a unique view of an important aspect of the “credit crisis” now almost one-year old.  > MORE