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CFO October 1, 2009 Randy Myers |
Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs. |
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 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. |
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? |
BusinessWeek January 6, 2011 C. Benson et al. |
Nasdaq's Secret Agent Derivatives Campaign The exchange wants to limit banks' ownership of clearinghouses |
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 October 8, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Is This Buffett's Nightmare Scenario? The credit default swaps are coming. |
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? |
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. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
Banks: Wave These Profits Goodbye Senate Agriculture Chairman Blanche Lincoln's plan to force banks that receive government support to spin out their profitable swaps trading desks is now likely to pass. |
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. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Paul Allen |
Trading Gets Exotic As the search for higher returns and diversification has sparked a surge in alternative investments, financial firms are working to establish a technology infrastructure capable of managing an acceptable balance between risk and reward. |
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. |
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. |
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 5, 2007 Ivy Schmerken |
The Buy Side Jumps on Board the Push to Automate OTC Derivatives Now that traditional buy-side firms and hedge funds are increasingly investing in credit derivatives, the industry is focusing on automating post-trade processes to reduce operational risk. |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Moscovitz & Koppenheffer |
Wall Street Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly A Foolish take on what's in the Senate bill. |
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 March 14, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Diversity in Derivatives Derivatives are key for many financial institutions and corporations. GFI understands how to make money from them. The proof is in the earnings. |
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. |
The Motley Fool October 29, 2007 Tom Taulli |
ICE Is Still Hot With global tensions, tight supplies, and a rising U.S. dollar, oil futures hit a record $93 per barrel today. It's no wonder InterContinental Exchange posted strong third-quarter numbers last week. |
CFO October 1, 2006 Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Are Your Secrets Safe? A shift in banks' business model raises questions about conflicts. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Warren Buffett Is Wrong on This One All derivatives should be regulated -- even Buffett's. |
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. |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Our Government Failed Us The final touches have been put on the financial reform bill and it's just as bad as ever. |
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 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 August 21, 2006 Tim Clark |
Affirmative Action A flood of new solutions hits the credit derivatives space in an effort to stem the risk of backlogged paperwork. |
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. |
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 July 1, 2010 Harper & Keoun |
The Financial Reform Law: A 'Fig Leaf' It won't prevent bad bets by banks, and hence won't prevent the next financial crisis, say the experts. |
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Ivy Schmerken |
Interview A conversation with Robert Gartland, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley, about technology in the financial services industry. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Michael McDonald |
A Wall Street Gimmick That Soaks Taxpayers Sold as a way for governments and nonprofits to lower costs on bonds, swaps contracts ended up hiking costs when interest rates plunged. |
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... |
BusinessWeek June 3, 2010 Christine Harper |
Wall Street Rethinks the Hard Sell for Exotic Financial Products There's a new recognition that not all big investors are savvy enough to play the swaps game. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 April 23, 2009 Richard Gibbons |
Stocks That Will Benefit From This Disaster The companies that helped cause the current crisis may end up being the biggest beneficiaries. |
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? |
On Wall Street August 1, 2010 Sen. Tim Johnson |
Coordinating Global Regulation Senator who helped hammer out the reform bill says this is just the beginning. |
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 |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |