Template:M summ Credit Derivatives 3.13

You get to specify one Obligation Category and any number of Obligation Characteristics. Fear not, though: the Obligation Categories are rather like nested Russian dolls: each smaller one fits in the one before.

So Payment is about as wide as a payment obligation can be, and includes the Reference Entities day-to-day outgoings: rent, wages, utilities, even the paper bill, if you can find enough unpaid invoices to tot up to the Default Requirement.

Borrowed Money requires some kind of indebtedness — much discussion can be had about what is and is not indebtedness under the Cross Default page. (This is something ISDA ninjas delight in fiddler with. They really shouldn’t). But in CDS land it is actually “money you gave someone, apropos nothing beyond the clear idea they might one day give it back.