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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tim Geithner, US treasury secretary, recently assured key US lawmakers that the definition of a ...

The standard clarifies that an entity is required to assess the embedded call or put options solely in accordance with a four-step decision sequence that was created by FASB’s Derivatives ...

Isda has contracted with London-based capital markets technology consultancy Etrading Software to oversee the project with the aim of developing a standard that can be applied consistently across ...