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Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Ivy Schmerken |
Derivatives Clearing Gives Congress Fits Congress is working on legislation for OTC derivatives reform, but there is still no agreement on mandatory clearing of standardized instruments or on how exotic instruments will be handled. |
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Matthew Leising |
How Wall Street Gamed Derivatives Reform New legislation likely won't have a major effect on banks that own stakes in trading and clearing firms. |
FDIC FYI March 26, 2003 |
Derivatives Risk in Commercial Banking Derivatives serve an essential role in the U.S. and world economies but also present certain risks to the deposit insurance funds. This article explains what these risks are and describes how they are managed within commercial banking. |
BusinessWeek October 7, 2009 Levisohn & Scott |
The Side Effects of Financial Reform Proposed rules aimed at curbing Wall Street abuses may crimp corporate earnings and returns for investors, too. |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 |
The Treasury Answers Fools' Questions Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Neal Wolin answers Motley Fool readers' questions regarding regulatory reform. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Gwen Moran |
Do Derivatives Need More Oversight? These securities have gotten a bad rap but new legislation may do more harm than good. |
CFO October 1, 2010 Randy Myers |
The Calm Before Reform With sweeping new legislation on the horizon, companies (and their banks) try to gauge the impact. |
U.S. Banker August 2001 John Hackett |
Credit Derivatives Hit a Snag After years of booming growth, the market in these hedging tools dropped in the first quarter, but the consensus is that they're too good to keep down. Includes statistics on the biggest bank participants. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
U.S. Banker March 2002 Man Yin Li |
Transfer That Risk! With more and more bankruptcies and defaults, many banks can protect themselves with credit derivatives. There are dangers in using them, but if used intelligently, they can be a boon to many banks... |
The Motley Fool November 14, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Behind the Scenes of the Market: Derivatives and Risk How risk is calculated and the way derivatives are really traded. |
Wall Street & Technology March 25, 2008 Ivy Schmerken |
InterContinental Exchange Acquires Yellow Jacket Software to Expand its Electronic Trading of OTC Derivatives Exchanges are moving into OTC derivatives as these instruments become more standardized and can trade on exchange-like electronic platforms. |
Wall Street & Technology November 17, 2008 Penny Crosman |
Wall Street Taking A Closer Look at Collateral Management In the wake of the credit crisis, JPMorgan, BNY Mellon, many of the top broker-dealers and a few buy-side firms are all involved in collateral management technology upgrades. |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Schmidt & Brush |
Will Currency Derivatives Get a Pass on Oversight? Banks want them exempted. Geithner is caught between bankers and regulators on how much oversight to give currency derivatives. |
U.S. Banker April 2009 Joseph Rosta |
Trade Credit Default Swaps on an Exchange It's time for this vulnerable market to take its vaccine. |
Knowledge@Wharton February 12, 2003 |
The Changing Use of Derivatives: More Hedging, Less Speculation High-risk gambles like those that torpedoed Orange County, Gibson and P&G are far less likely than conservative plays meant to hedge against loss in underlying markets such as energy, commodities or currencies. |
Reason February 2004 Callahan & Kaza |
In Defense of Derivatives Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth. |
Salon.com February 5, 2002 Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 S.J. Caplan |
Profit From Credit Default Swaps Credit default swaps are privately negotiated contracts between institutional investors which are based on corporate bonds. How can you profit from them? |
CFO August 1, 2007 Randy Myers |
Better Ways to Buy Treasury managers are teaming up with corporate purchasing agents to tame commodity risk. |
CFO September 1, 2003 Hilary Rosenberg |
Compromising Positions Will credit derivatives encourage more lending, or will they harm the interests of borrowers? |
Finance & Development June 2010 Randall Dodd |
Municipal Bombs Local governments on both sides of the Atlantic found themselves in a financial mess after engaging in derivatives transactions. |
BusinessWeek April 15, 2010 Alison Fitzgerald |
Let's Have a Beer and Talk Derivatives In the fiery debate over financial reform, MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch are surprisingly powerful players. Why their clout could matter. |
BusinessWeek July 29, 2010 Chad Terhune |
ICE's Jeffrey Sprecher: The Sultan of Swaps Sprecher has found profit remodeling the credit default swap market. His close relationship with banks has critics worried that he hasn't made it safer. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 20, 2006 Ann Cullen |
Unlocking Your Investment Capital Many companies can double or even triple their capacity to invest in strategic assets and competencies by properly managing their risk balance sheet. |
BusinessWeek January 6, 2011 C. Benson et al. |
Nasdaq's Secret Agent Derivatives Campaign The exchange wants to limit banks' ownership of clearinghouses |
Wall Street & Technology February 13, 2007 Ivy Schmerken |
Asset Managers Push Custodians to Offer Independent Pricing Services for OTC Derivatives The exponential growth of OTC derivatives is forcing custodians to provide independent valuation services to their institutional clients. |
BusinessWeek February 11, 2010 Katz & Schmidt |
A Goldman Guy Turns on the Street CFTC chief Gary Gensler's fight for tough rules on derivatives is making him exceedingly unloved. |
Wall Street & Technology April 22, 2008 Ivy Schmerken |
Buy Side Seeks Independent Valuation Providers for OTC Derivatives After Credit Crisis With the credit markets in turmoil over OTC derivatives valuations, buy-side firms are tapping vendors to avoid the conflict of interest inherent in broker-determined prices. |
The Motley Fool July 26, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Financial Reform Slam the Derivatives Market? Will the freshly signed financial reform bill wreak havoc on the derivatives market? |
Finance & Development June 2009 Randall Dodd |
Playing with Fire Firms across the spectrum of emerging markets entered into exotic derivative contracts that caused massive losses |
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2007 Dees Stribling |
The Dawning of Derivatives REIT and real estate derivatives are introduced as a new financial tool in the real estate world. |
FDIC FYI October 11, 2005 Michael H. Krimminger |
FYI: An Update on Emerging Issues in Banking Adjusting the rules: What bankruptcy reform will mean for financial market contracts. |
CFO August 1, 2012 Randy Myers |
Unfinished Business Two years after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the law's implementation is far behind schedule, and its success is still in doubt. |
Wall Street & Technology February 19, 2008 Larry Tabb |
Societe Generale-Type Fraud Could Happen Again The scary thing is, what happened at Societe Generale could happen at virtually every bank and brokerage firm. So how was the fraud committed, and what can we learn from it? |
U.S. Banker November 2008 Michael Sisk |
In Pursuit of Sustainable Capitalism The case for greater regulatory CDS oversight appears to be finding traction. |
CFO May 8, 2006 Linda Corman |
Lost in the Maze Problems with hedge accounting caused a wave of restatements in 2005. Are FASB's rules too hard to follow, or are companies simply too lax? |
BusinessWeek May 6, 2010 Dawn Kopecki |
Why Wall Street Fears Derivatives Regulation A provision in the finance reform bill could force banks to exit a highly profitable business. |
CFO June 1, 2003 Ronald Fink |
Natural Performers Companies are increasingly relying on natural hedges to juggle currency risks. They are forsaking derivatives and matching revenues and costs for the same currency or offsetting losses in one currency with gains in another. |
Finance & Development June 2009 Kamil et al. |
A Hedge, Not a Bet Latin American companies used new techniques to protect against currency swings. But a few used them to gamble -- and they lost big. |
CFO October 1, 2004 Ronald Fink |
Default Swap Faults A dispute in the Enron bankruptcy case highlights troubling questions about credit default insurance. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
The Coming Financial Meltdown With 43 Congressional members hammering out a final version of the financial-reform bill, one of the biggest contentions remains what to do about the mind-boggling, vast, and opaque derivatives market owned by the nation's too-big-to-fail megabanks. |
Wall Street & Technology March 17, 2008 Penny Crosman |
Markit's Moving Fast Into Derivatives Processing London-based data provider Markit has bought Communicator, Swapswire and BOAT. What's next for this fast-moving derivatives player? |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction Are Still Primed Six years after Warren Buffet called derivatives "weapons of financial mass destruction" those weapons are still active, and their stockpiles are more heavily concentrated than before. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2010 Muriel Siebert |
Double Trouble The fact is that the public has lost faith in the financial system. The market has a different feel to it now. Public investors are responsible for a lot of the success of this country. We've got to get that confidence back. |
BusinessWeek January 6, 2011 |
How the Nasdaq Lobbying Worked Stealth lobbying lead to a Justice Dept. investigation. In 2008, Nasdaq began clearing over-the-counter swaps of interest rates, commonly used to hedge against higher borrowing costs or to speculate on interest-rate moves. |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Is This Buffett's Nightmare Scenario? The credit default swaps are coming. |
BusinessWeek October 14, 2010 Loder & Mattingly |
Under Siege at The CFTC Congress gave regulators wide discretion to regulate derivatives, causing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to be besieged by lobbyists. |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
The End Game for Wall Street Finally, an end to government support for the risky derivatives called swaps. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Warren Buffett Is Wrong on This One All derivatives should be regulated -- even Buffett's. |