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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...