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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 proposals are good as far as they go, but they don't go far enough. Under the proposed reforms,standard derivative products such as credit default swaps (CDS) -- in which one party sells ...

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LONDON, Nov 2 (IFR) - Four global banks have teamed up to offer standard documentation for ... primarily aims to address the treatment of derivatives underlying repack transactions issued out ...

Standard Chartered Plc is closing its equity derivatives and convertible bonds operations as Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters sheds businesses that have been a drag on the lender’s performance.

The administration wants to regulate all dealers of derivatives as well as push for all standard derivatives to be cleared and traded on exchanges. The administration has not fully fleshed out how ...

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 ...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved recently Standard Chartered Bank’s (StanChart) application to engage in various derivatives, products and variants as a type 1 expanded dealer ...