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BusinessWeek
February 11, 2010 |
Gary Gensler's Wish List How the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would reshape the financial system.   |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
Phil Mattingly |
Are Wall Street Lobbyists Losing Clout in D.C.? A GOP senator's support for a tough derivatives bill suggests President Obama may have momentum for broader regulation overhaul. |
Salon.com
June 26, 2002
Damien Cave |
Foxes guarding the chicken coop President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron's derivatives trading instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place. |
CFO
October 1, 2009
Randy Myers |
Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs. |
BusinessWeek
February 10, 2011
Robert Schmidt |
Starving the Regulators The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are in a severe budget squeeze, and layoffs may be the only answer |
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. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
James Sterngold |
Let a Thousand Regulators Bloom As agencies begin rewiring Wall Street, job openings abound. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
Shields & White |
CFTC Green-Lights a Film Derivatives Market Hollywood insiders and some senators worry that movie derivatives could influence which films bomb at the box office. |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2010
April Taylor |
Fraud Charges Aren't Goldman's Only Worry Will the company need another transformation? |
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? |
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 6, 2011
C. Benson et al. |
Nasdaq's Secret Agent Derivatives Campaign The exchange wants to limit banks' ownership of clearinghouses |
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 22, 2010
Robison et al. |
Amber Waves of Pain Lured by the idea of profiting from raw materials, investors put $277 billion into commodity ETFs and related securities by the end of 2009. Then they noticed a problem: When commodities go up, the commodity ETFs often don't. |
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 |
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 20, 2011
Loder & Brush |
Energy Futures: The Risk in Speculation Limits The CFTC's push to limit commodity speculation faces opposition from House Republicans who now share control over the agency's budget. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
Should the Government Stop Subsidizing Derivatives Trading? What do you think? A key part of the Senate financial reform bill known as section 716 would stop banks from using FDIC-insured deposits to run their swaps trading desks. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
Karen Weise |
Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Could Get Bigger Federal agencies putting mortgage and derivative reforms into force are writing rules that seem to have a big-bank bias. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2009
David Williamson |
Will Stopping Oil Speculators Save Our Economy? Oil speculators are increasingly coming under fire, and their days of easy speculation may be coming to an end. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 25, 2011
Beyers & Koppenheffer |
Who's Responsible for the MF Global Mess? Take Your Pick A closer look at the key players in unwinding the futures and commodities failure. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2009
Morgan Housel |
They're All Too Big to Fail Plenty of Wall Street banks -- all of them "too big to fail" -- are still ticking time bombs when it comes to bloated derivative books. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 19, 2007 |
Finding Liquidity in Derivatives Instruments Is Traders' Biggest Challenge Despite substantial growth in derivatives trading in recent years, much of equity derivatives volume is concentrated in the most-liquid contracts. |
Registered Rep.
February 29, 2012
Charles Paikert |
Ruling Hits Family Offices on Cost, Disclosure Family offices received an unpleasant and unexpected surprise earlier this month -- they are now going to have to register their commodity and futures trades. It will be an onerous, and potentially costly, process, many say. |
Investment Advisor
October 2009
Melanie Waddell |
B/D News Broker/Dealer news from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission... USAdvisors Network... and the Lower Brule Sioux... |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2009
Anand Chokkavelu |
Walk of Shame: Wall Street Lobbyists Their calls for less regulation will only result in more pain. |
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... |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2010
Paul Menchaca |
Derivatives Return As much as derivative products have been shunned as 'weapons of mass destruction,' certain derivatives may become more important as investors discover their value as a way of potentially limiting or focusing risk exposure. |
Investment Advisor
June 2010
Melanie Waddell |
The Regulators Never Sleep The SEC and the CFTC have formed a joint committee that will address emerging regulatory issues. |
U.S. Banker
July 2011 |
Back Porch Select quotes from the world of financial services. |
