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 ...

Counsel faced with potential claims that may be either direct or derivative have always had to use caution to overcome procedural and substantive hurdles. The Minnesota legislature replaced the prior ...

ETFs are not derivatives but may hold them to hedge risks or enhance strategies. Learn how most ETFs differ from derivatives despite some exceptions.

Some things have changed radically over the last decade, however, the most important being the structure of financial markets. The Great Financial Crisis was arguably caused by the digitalization of ...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a no-action position to Phantom, a “first-of-its-kind” relief ...

Fund managers are moving to get independent values on over-the-counter derivatives, rather than relying on their broker-dealers. Processing Content Just in the nick of time. "The financial crisis ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Johnson Financial Group, a family-operated American banking industry stalwart with a portfolio of over $6 billion in assets, is pleased to announce its partnership with ...

Financial instruments are becoming increasingly complicated, and a new survey of CPA financial executives by the AICPA found concern about the valuation of instruments such as derivatives, with fears ...

Eighteen months after the financial crisis, Senator Chris Dodd (D–CT) and the Obama Administration are suddenly in a hurry to pass financial reform legislation, including blanket regulation of ...

Partners with Derivative Path to bolster its hedging program, will use its cloud-based OTC trading platform to manage trade execution, sales, operations and Dodd-Frank compliance of its interest rate ...

Under a last-minute change to the financial reform bill, Wall Street banks can keep selling interest-rate swaps directly, rather than isolating these derivatives in separate units. Beyond simply ...

A financial statement expresses the value of an enterprise by listing and evaluating its parts. In the process, the statement sets forth as accurately as possible each asset and liability. Determining ...