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Chargeoffs from derivative exposures dropped 63%, to $25 million. However, when banks lose money on derivative contracts, the writeoffs usually occur some time after the contract goes sour. “We still ...

A Barclays team has demonstrated a derivative trade using Corda, a distributed ledger platform. What challenges does Corda have to overcome before becoming the future of derivative contracts? R3 is a ...

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Principals who manage private equity, venture capital and/or hedge funds often desire to transfer the upside potential (namely, the carried interest or performance fee) to lower generations because ...

Index provider FTSE Russell and global derivatives exchange Eurex have entered into a partnership that will see them launch three futures contracts and one option on 29 March. The pair said the launch ...

Derivatives are financial instruments that "derive" (hence the name) their value from an underlying asset. That underlying asset can be stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, even market indexes. For ...

The Xena Exchange platform for digital assets trading is ready to launch the first-ever leveraged cryptocurrency-settled derivative contract for the GRAM token on March 12th. This is a significant ...