Persuaded that lax regulation of financial derivatives contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers in Congress and the Obama Administration have adopted a knee-jerk solution: regulate ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Securities and commodities traders and banks claim the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission promulgated an illegal rule meant to curb excessive speculation - because, the ...

Several members of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) have discussed initial “teething problems” following the implementation of swaps margin rules on 1 September. Scott ...

Despite what Wall Street may have you believe, Congress needs to establish speed limits and traffic lights to improve derivative safety, write David Min and Pat Garofalo. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) ...

Swaps and other derivatives, blamed by some for causing the global financial crisis, have returned in a big but deceptive way. The Bank for International Settlements reports that the notional amount ...

The use of a derivative agreement to mitigate risk can be traced back to around 1754BC, when the Code of Hammurabi was set in stone in Babylon. That was 3,723 years before Euromoney began publication ...

The days when large corporations refused to deal in what were seen as dodgy derivatives are long gone. Now, equity swaps, bespoke equity options and even volatility swaps are all used to hedge ...

The $650 trillion derivatives market is a nightmare scenario waiting to happen. First problem: the size. It's 36 times the size of the U.S. GDP and over eight times larger than the world GDP, that is, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top executives at American International Group Inc knew of potential problems in valuing derivatives contracts, known as credit default swaps, long before questions about the ...

Demanding Diversity Through Uniformity“Derivatives” have gone from being the hottest thing on Wall Street to being the hottest thing in Washington. Indeed, President Obama -- who mentioned them no ...

Hedge funds have gotten rich from credit derivatives. Will they blow up? The downfall of Amaranth Advisors, the hedge fund that lost $6 billion in a single week by betting on natural gas, was a ...

Enhance your knowledge of effective derivatives risk management and interest rate instruments through this interactive learning event. Led by a subject matter expert, participants will deep dive into ...