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DERIVATIVE SECURITIES

A derivative security is a financial security, such as an option or future, whose value is derived in part from the value and characteristic of an underlying asset. Common derivatives include future contracts, forward contracts, options and swaps. This topic covers the latest news on derivative securities.

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Clearing exemption for FX swaps to be scrapped, says Frankmore

The US Congress will remove the exemption for foreign exchange (forex) swaps and forwards from new central clearing...

Competition In OTC Clearing Comes With Its Own Riskmore

Competition In OTC Clearing Comes With Its Own Risk - The top executive of ICE warned Thursday that price competition...

Deutsche Börse and Eurex welcome the communication issued by the EU Co...more

Deutsche Börse and Eurex support the EU Commission’s objective to reduce systemic risks in the OTC derivatives market...

‘Abusive Swaps’ Would Be Banned Under Frank’s Derivatives Planmore

Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Legislation tightening oversight of the $592 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market would...

CIT May Pit Bondholders Against Each Other With Swap (Update3)more

Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- CIT Group Inc., the 101-year-old commercial lender, will seek board approval as soon as this week...

Regulating Credit Default Swaps: Will It Work?more

The market for credit default swaps (CDS)—derivatives that insure holders against default on a range of debt...

Lehman: One Big Derivatives Messmore

Warren Buffett called derivatives "weapons of mass destruction" back in 2003. AFP/Saul Loeb In 2003,...

Video: Perry Mehrling on Fischer Black (HISTORY OF FINANCIAL THOUGHT)...more

Video: Perry Mehrling on Fischer Black (HISTORY OF FINANCIAL THOUGHT) (Windows Media Player). Fischer Black was an...

Video: Myron Scholes Interview (10/07/2006) (Windows Media Player)more

Video: Myron Scholes Interview (10/07/2006) (Windows Media Player). Myron Scholes is is one of the authors of the...

Banks to submit 95 percent of eligible credit derivative trades to cen...more

Large derivatives dealers will agree to submit 95 percent of eligible credit derivative trades to central...

Breaking: Rick Santelli ARRESTED by EPA covert special opsmore

...us toys made with derivative securities, we’d recall our ambassador and cut off relations. If R.J. Reynolds were...

Credit Default Swaps: Is Your Fund at Risk?more

Complex financial instruments called credit default swaps have roiled the financial markets for months.

LCH.Clearnet in talks to buy out shareholdersmore

LCH.Clearnet in talks to buy out shareholders By Jeremy Grant in Interlaken Published: September 10 2009 23:12 | Last...

CDS dealers sign up for derivatives clearinghouse more

It looks like the wild west days of the over-the-counter derivatives market may be coming to an end as fifteen of the...

EU Considers More Derivatives Regulationmore

The European Union is taking a fresh look at ways the derivatives market might be regulated, going beyond a recent...

Deutsche Börse and Eurex publish White Paper "The Global Derivati...more

Opalesque Industry Updates - White Paper provides an analysis of the status quo as well as market deficiencies in the...

A Course in Derivative Securities: Introduction to Theory and...more

This book aims at a middle ground between the introductory books on derivative securities and those that provide...

Eurex Says It Clears First Single-Name Default Swap (Update1)more

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Eurex Credit Clear said it became the first central counterparty to clear a single-name credit-...

Credit Default Swaps: Danger Passing?more

Tick. Tick. Tick. That's the sound of the credit-default-swap time bomb counting down to financial Armageddon, if the...

Open Question: are any benefits realized by creating any array of...more

Evaluate this criticism. Are any benefits realized by creating any array of derivative securities from various primary...

European Commission welcomes first CDS tradesmore

European Commission welcomes first CDS trades By Nikki Tait in Brussels and Jeremy Grant in London Published: July 31...

House chairmen back mandatory OTC clearingmore

Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from...

Global watchdogs review derivatives clearing rulesmore

The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems -- part of the Bank for International Settlements -- and the...

How AIG's Credit Loophole Squeezed Europe's Banks - BusinessWeekmore

Brussels: Dexia once boasted about its swaps. The bank was just bailed out Gamma/Zuma Press European banks didn't gorge...

Buffett Suffers Weapons Of Financial Destruction Fallout - Dealbreaker...more

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. underestimated the risks of falling stock prices to its billions of dollars of...

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