In the same month, the Austrian Minister of Finance proposed the imposition of laws relating to
financial derivatives on crypto currency to prevent money laundering using the digital currency.
Not exact matches
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their
derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10)
financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report
on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports
on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
«Requiring the banks to pay treble damages to every plaintiff who ended up
on the wrong side of an independent Libor ‐ denominated
derivative swap would, if appellants» allegations were proved at trial, not only bankrupt 16 of the world's most important
financial institutions, but also vastly extend the potential scope of antitrust liability in myriad markets where
derivative instruments have proliferated,» the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York said in the ruling.A U.S. appeals court
on Monday revived private antitrust litigation accusing major banks of conspiring to manipulate the Libor benchmark interest rate, in a big setback for their defense against investors» claims of market - rigging.
The heads of federal
financial oversight agencies testified
on on the implementation of the 2010 Dodd - Frank
financial regulations law, focusing
on derivatives.
On February 22, France's top
financial regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), published a press release indicating that online platforms which allow users to trade in cryptocurrency
derivatives may no longer advertise those
financial products and must be approved «to offer investment services.»
On January 18, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), a pan-EU financial regulator, announced the beginning of a consultation period during which it will consider possible restrictions on cryptocurrency derivatives, specifically contracts for difference (CFDs
On January 18, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), a pan-EU
financial regulator, announced the beginning of a consultation period during which it will consider possible restrictions
on cryptocurrency derivatives, specifically contracts for difference (CFDs
on cryptocurrency
derivatives, specifically contracts for difference (CFDs).
The FSA is the government body charged with overseeing the
Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, which would have to be amended to recognize digital assets as financial products in order for related derivatives to be traded legally on Japanese e
Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, which would have to be amended to recognize digital assets as
financial products in order for related derivatives to be traded legally on Japanese e
financial products in order for related
derivatives to be traded legally
on Japanese exchanges.
Tax cuts
on wealth are promoted as if they will be invested rather than used to pay the
financial sector more interest or be gambled
on currencies and exchange rates, interest rates, stock and bond prices, credit default swaps and kindred
derivatives.
On Wednesday, Nasdaq and Cantor Fitzgerald became the latest
financial giants to proclaim interest in offering bitcoin
derivatives.
The rates that have responded most significantly to lower borrowing costs are short - term loans for
financial speculation, above all for
derivatives and related buying or selling of stocks and bonds
on margin — enormous gambles
on which way the dollar, the stock market and interest rates may go.
The «search for yield», i.e. for better return
on financial investments than the declining interest rate, thus led to the series of bubbles & bursts: deregulated savings & loans (immediately), high - tech stocks (late 90's), mortgage
derivatives — > house prices (2000's).
On October 16, 2017, cryptocurrency
derivatives trading platform LedgerX began listing swaps as well as put and call options for BTC / USD,
financial instruments that are available to the institutional market in the US.
Warren Buffett famously called
derivatives «
financial weapons of mass destruction,» destruction that is being witnessed
on a daily basis
on the world's stock exchanges.
Financial assets and liabilities whose values, based
on unadjusted, quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in an active market, examples include active exchange - traded equity securities, listed
derivatives, most United States Government and agency securities, and certain...
Global
financial markets, which lost heavily
on derivatives, are already in free fall.
As you would expect from the fastest growing
financial derivative, there is an ever increasing number of binary options brokers
on the market.
While the company advises customers against investing in virtual currencies and related
financial instruments, it «provides access to trade all securities listed
on, for example, Nasdaq,» meaning that some clients can purchase cryptocurrency
derivatives «through the platform.»
The equity
derivatives market is in many ways so complex that the
financial press doesn't even report
on it.
LONDON (Reuters)- Bitcoin climbed to a new all - time high of $ 6,450
on Wednesday, boosted by bets the cryptocurrency could enter the
financial mainstream after the world's largest
derivatives exchange operator said
on Tuesday it would launch bitcoin futures.
Just when you thought Wall Street's heist of the U.S.
financial system couldn't get any crazier, along comes a regulator's report
on FDIC - insured banks exposure to
derivatives.
In February the French
financial markets regulator Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) published a statement that the
derivatives on cryptocurrencies should be regulated under the new
financial reforms in the EU.
The U.S.
derivatives regulator will hold two meetings to discuss the procedure and operational controls for listing and trading digital currency futures, it said
on Thursday, amid rising concerns over the risks bitcoin poses to the
financial system.
Second, the potential impact of
derivatives is more contained now than it was in 1994 due to tighter regulations
on financial institutions.
Financial stocks fell 22 percent in the third quarter of 1998 as investors scrambled to figure out who was
on the other side of Long - Term Capital Management's super-leveraged
derivative trades.
Equity
Derivative - Equity
Derivative is a
financial which underlying value is based
on stock or securities.
In today's «
derivative» stage of finance capitalism, large Wall Street banks make money off their customers and counterparties by betting which way the economy will go, much like betting
on a horse race — except that «fixing» the
financial race is not illegal, or at least is not prosecuted.
I actually think something else is going
on here — rather than talking about regulating the
financial sector, the government and the Bank are signaling that they are willing to provide lender - of - last - resort assurances to those who sell or engage in
derivative financial products, of which the asset - back mortgage and commercial debt are but two examples.
Additionally, markets based
on contracts, including certain
financial derivatives markets, lack transparency, which complicates regulation.
And
on top of that, according to the U.S. Treasury's Office of
Financial Research, Wall Street banks are holding massive exposure to European entities, including hundreds of billions of dollars in off - balance - sheet credit
derivatives — the instruments that played a significant role in blowing up Wall Street in 2008.
On February 14, the week after the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced two separate days of more than 1,000 - point losses, the House Financial Services» Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment convened a hearing to discuss various legislative proposals to return to the wild west era of derivatives trading on Wall Stree
On February 14, the week after the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced two separate days of more than 1,000 - point losses, the House
Financial Services» Subcommittee
on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment convened a hearing to discuss various legislative proposals to return to the wild west era of derivatives trading on Wall Stree
on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment convened a hearing to discuss various legislative proposals to return to the wild west era of
derivatives trading
on Wall Stree
on Wall Street.
Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and
financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities,
derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance
on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report
on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Professor Pirrong's research focuses
on the organization of
financial exchanges,
derivatives clearing, competition between exchanges, commodity markets,
derivatives market manipulation, the relation between market fundamentals and commodity price dynamics, and the implications of this relation for the pricing of commodity
derivatives.
The mechanisms of this international capitalist recession, the latest of which, to date, some would like to see as the first crisis of world capitalism, are well known: contraction in production and trade; deflationary trends; massive growth in the volume of loans accumulated by international banks
on countries or
on the major industrial and banking groups, loans which become transformed into irrecoverable debts; brutal capital withdrawals from countries by the major
financial operators, which live from the revenue from parasitical investments in bonds, shares and other
derivatives.
Exotic credit
derivatives, for those among us with short memories, are those quaint
financial instruments that enable banks to make massive bets
on the failure of loans, without having to actually own any of the underlying debt.
23 (1) of Act 930 states «Except as otherwise provided for in this Act, a person, other than a company holding a banking licence, shall not hold itself out as a bank or use the word «bank» or any of its
derivatives in any language, or any word that sounds like «bank» in the description or title under which that person is carrying
on financial services business in Ghana, or make a representation to this effect in any billhead, letter, paper, notice, advertisement or in any other manner.
But Astorino said Cuomo hasn't been forthcoming enough when it comes to his book contract — which the governor revealed in a
financial disclosure form is worth more than $ 700,000 — saying that he should provide more information
on derivatives he's receiving from the memoir deal.
On Tuesday, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D - Conn., proposed a compromise change to the Wall Street reform bill that would water down a proposed ban on derivatives trading by many financial firm
On Tuesday, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D - Conn., proposed a compromise change to the Wall Street reform bill that would water down a proposed ban
on derivatives trading by many financial firm
on derivatives trading by many
financial firms.
A subsidiary of... A stock
derivative is any
financial instrument which has a value that is dependent
on the price of the underlying stock.
From troubled trading - floor boss Sam (Kevin Spacey), his second - in - command Will (Paul Bettany), and
financial officer Sarah (Demi Moore), to bluntly self - interested CEO John Tuld (Jeremy Irons), employees are left to grapple not only with the enormous cost wrought by their reckless
derivatives risks
on the firm and the economy, but with the potential professional and ethical cost survival will entail.
We may never come to a consensus
on what caused the
financial collapse, but
derivatives definitely share a large part of the blame.
As my
financial derivatives instructor states, «If you can't beat them, give them a big middle finger and move
on.»
On to tonight's first topic: my view on derivatives differs from that of other commentators because I am an actuary (as well as an economist and financial analyst
On to tonight's first topic: my view
on derivatives differs from that of other commentators because I am an actuary (as well as an economist and financial analyst
on derivatives differs from that of other commentators because I am an actuary (as well as an economist and
financial analyst).
France's
financial markets regulator, the AMF, has announced that the ban
on electronic advertising of forex and binary options products, also extends to the recently appeared
derivatives with cryptocurrencies as an underlying asset.
If you believe that people are rational and markets are efficient, this will largely determine your views
on gun control (unnecessary), consumer protection laws (caveat emptor), welfare programs (too many unintended consequences),
derivatives regulation (let a thousand flowers bloom), whether you should invest in passive index funds or hyperactive hedge funds (index funds only), the causes of
financial crises (too much government intervention in housing and mortgage markets), and how the government should or shouldn't respond to them (the primary
financial role for government should be producing and verifying information so that it can be incorporated into market prices).
The
financial industry has made year over year record profits because they invested in the
derivatives, and then either sold the Mortgage Backed Securities
on Wall Street or Leveraged (borrowed) against them at the Federal Reserve.
France's
financial markets regulator, the AMF, has announced that the ban
on electronic advertising of forex and binary options products, also extends to the recently appeared
derivatives with...
Ms. Hill has published extensively
on quantitative investment topics and
derivatives, with recent articles in the
Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management, and Journal of Trading.
Derivative A financial instrument, traded on or off an exchange, the price of which is directly dependent upon (i.e., «derived from») the value of one or more underlying securities, equity indices, debt instruments, commodities, other derivative instruments, or any agreed upon pricing index or arrangement (e.g., the movement over time of the Consumer Price Index or freig
Derivative A
financial instrument, traded
on or off an exchange, the price of which is directly dependent upon (i.e., «derived from») the value of one or more underlying securities, equity indices, debt instruments, commodities, other
derivative instruments, or any agreed upon pricing index or arrangement (e.g., the movement over time of the Consumer Price Index or freig
derivative instruments, or any agreed upon pricing index or arrangement (e.g., the movement over time of the Consumer Price Index or freight rates).
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The ban will apply to OTC
derivatives and not to trading
on a regulated exchange or
on a multilateral trading facility, which is designed to supplement a Belgian distribution ban that was already in force for certain products, such as
financial products with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies as their underlying.