Mark Brickell Chair, International Swaps and Derivatives Association (1988-1992) Every business faces risk when it opens its doors. If you're running an automobile manufacturing company and you borrow ...

The Credit Default Swap market is dying. The market suffers from ridiculously onerous governmental regulation, the legacy of the AIG debacle. It is an OTC market. So, market information and access is ...

A derivative is a securitized contract whose value is dependent upon one or more underlying assets. Its price is determined by fluctuations in that asset.

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 ...

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 ...

Minnesotans have an opportunity to take an active role in partnering with Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., to “effectively” ban the further use of credit default swaps. Nouriel Roubini, professor of ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Financial derivatives are a form of secondary investment, involving a derivative of an underlying security to provide contracts with specific terms including fixed values or fixed time periods.

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 ...