Coinbase’s agreement to buy Deribit highlights the increasing importance of financial derivatives for cryptocurrency exchanges, according to industry executives. On May 8, Coinbase, the US’s largest ...

ipuwadol/Getty Images Derivatives are financial instruments ... Hedging is a common form of risk management in financial markets. Investors use derivatives to protect certain positions or even ...

The larger question raised by the CFTC’s decision to ban political betting is why it does not use the same reasoning to regulate financial derivatives, which are conceptually no different from ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Eight years since Lehman Brothers' collapse sent the financial system ... helped to write the derivatives rules. "Margin, capital and other regulatory requirements are together ...

The structured nature of derivatives makes them very attractive for risk management or hedging needs. This can include financial firms using derivatives to protect their investment portfolio ...

LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Energy companies, hedge funds and commodity traders are stepping up their use of financial products ... Weather derivatives were born in the late 1990s.

small financial counterparties and pension funds using financial derivative products. The Romanian presidency of the Council and the European Parliament reached today a preliminary agreement on ...

The Bottom Line LETFs are specialized financial instruments designed to deliver multiples of the daily performance of a specific index or asset. They achieve this by using derivatives as leverage ...