This document discusses contributions to clustering financial time series, specifically credit default swap data. It introduces credit default swaps and the raw data set. It then discusses challenges in clustering financial time series due to non-stationarity and noisy correlations. It presents initial work on analyzing the consistency of clustering as the sample size increases, through simulations in a simplified setting. Finally, it proposes a two-step approach to proving consistency, by first identifying geometrical configurations that lead to the true clustering structure.