The cover is the first clue: this is not your usual derivatives textbook. Two eager commodities traders — a rabbit, bearing acorns, and a squirrel, bearing carrots — face off across the front of a new ...

The governing agreements for a wide range of transactions, from the most basic financing arrangements to the most complex derivatives trading relationships, frequently include a “cross-default” event ...

International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) rules that require financial instruments to be accounted for at fair value, known as IAS 39, could have a detrimental effect on sales of complex ...

UBS (NYSE:UBS) orders its bankers to scale back the sale of complex currency derivatives after clients suffered heavy losses linked to the market turmoil following U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

Derivatives structurers are having a day in the sun. Higher interest rates are helping these alchemists of Wall Street to put together profitable trades across asset classes that can be pitched to ...

A derivative is a financial instrument that gains value from the performance or price of an underlying asset, such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and indices. It is set between two or more ...