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I'm one of them, but I don't want overstate my case, having commented a few weeks ago on derivatives in the home equity loan asset - backed securities market.

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In 2015, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which was beginning to crack down on unregistered firms that were trading cryptocurrency derivatives, determined that cryptos were commodities and thus within its regulatory jurisdiction.

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

In total, $ 125 million worth of derivatives have traded on the platform since launch.

In so ruling, the court nonetheless recognized a significant distinction regarding the CFTC's regulatory authority over derivatives markets on the one hand and over cash or spot transactions on the other.

CEO of Japanese online broker, and former Goldman Sachs trader, says cryptocurrencies will catch on, just like derivatives did in the 1980s.

The 1,603 - page bill, negotiated by Republican and Democratic appropriators and leaders, drew Democrats» ire when they discovered it would roll back the Dodd - Frank law due to go into effect next year by killing planned restrictions on derivatives trading by large banks, allowing them to continue trading swaps and futures in units that benefit from federal deposit insurance and Federal Reserve loans.

WASHINGTON, April 26 - The head of the U.S. derivatives watchdog on Thursday said he would like to allow more flexibility in the way swaps are traded while at the same time tightening requirements for reporting of such trades.

May 3 - Fannie Mae said on Thursday its net income rose to $ 4.26 billion in the first quarter from $ 2.77 billion a year ago as a result of a hefty gain on its derivatives.

May 1 - Freddie Mac, the No. 2 U.S. mortgage finance company, said net income in the first quarter grew to $ 2.93 billion from $ 2.21 billion a year ago due to gains on its derivatives and growth in its apartments business.

And this is what Gross doesn't like, writing, «The fact is that derivatives on a systemic basis represent increased leverage and therefore increased risk — presenting possible exit and liquidity problems in future months and years.»

«Clarity on the Cambridge issue and FB's willingness to self - regulate are likely near - term catalysts that may reduce investor fears, stabilize the stock, and position it for a recovery into Q1 results,» Shawn Quigg, an equity derivatives strategist at JPMorgan, wrote in a client note.

The trader, Bruno Iksil, who worked in JPMorgan's chief investment office in London and incurred losses on oversized positions in a derivatives market, is cooperating with government investigators, the source said.

Corporations just want to make sure their trading costs are contained and are indifferent about who is on their side, said one lawyer in Washington who has worked on derivatives reform.

In previous instances, big companies have sided with banks on derivatives rules, fearful that changes would make trading more expensive for them as counterparties.

Equities have been a focus of late, with the bank including a slide in the presentation on growth across prime brokerage, cash equities, and equity derivatives.

«A successful and well - publicized Prime Day may weigh on shares of Walmart as investors remain sensitive to Amazon's competitive threat,» said Shawn Quigg, an equity derivatives strategist at JP Morgan, in a note on Monday.

«Depending on the structure of these derivative deals, errors or misconceptions in valuation could be amplified — whether through leverage or simply contracts built on faulty valuations.»

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.

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Garden City, New York, and San Francisco, California, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of investors and achieved substantial corporate governance reforms in numerous cases nationwide, including federal securities fraud actions, shareholder class actions, and shareholder derivative actions.

«The size of the penalties is testimony to the great damage risky derivatives bets can do, and that's important,» said Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who helped conduct an investigation into the London Whale trade as chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said in a statement.

Changes in currency, net of lower fuel prices and derivatives, is expected to have a $ 0.03 — a $ 0.03 negative effect on Q3's earnings.

The second rule of thumb relates to our current fuel derivative portfolio where a 10 % reduction in the price of Brent for the remaining half of 2012 would result in an additional $ 0.04 of realized losses on fuel derivatives that would offset the $ 0.13 per share favorable impact from the reduced price of fuel.

Future analysis done in relation to the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash should be done on mini flash crashes in other U.S. markets, especially on mini flash crashes in derivatives markets (since derivative markets exhibit more cross-market interconnectedness than other markets), and on mini flash crashes on the other public stock exchanges.

The European Securities and Markets Authority may ban retail investors in the EU from buying derivatives based on cryptocurrencies, and is also considering a range of other restrictions on which it is currently seeking consultation.

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.»

As a side note, it is worth noting that changes in contract size affected volume and open interest on the Korea Exchange, one of the region's largest derivatives markets.

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 exchanges.

Figuring out ways to regulate trading by sophisticated investors in derivatives, which go by exotic names such as «currency forwards» and «credit default swaps,» is a hot topic in international policy circles, largely because failures on this murky side of the market are blamed for the 2008 global credit meltdown and the recession that followed.

Brazil's securities regulator has announced that investment funds may not invest directly in cryptocurrencies, and it projected that guidance on indirect investments — for example in foreign virtual currency derivatives — will be made available following further internal deliberations.

based in part on their business line performance, and thus presented the potential for excessive risk taking, the HRC concluded that the emphasis on overall Company performance in compensation decisions, the existence of robust compliance, internal control, disclosure review and reporting programs and clawback policies, the Code of Ethics prohibition on, and right to discipline employees for manipulating business goals for compensation purposes and its prohibitions on derivative and hedging transactions in Company common stock, and the Company's stock ownership guidelines provided adequate safeguards that would either prevent or discourage excessive risk taking.

On Wednesday, Nasdaq and Cantor Fitzgerald became the latest financial giants to proclaim interest in offering bitcoin derivatives.

On this logic regulators would follow free market orthodoxy in rejecting derivatives and other such «complex» products.

«To achieve this in the synthetic credit portfolio [of things like index swaps and credit derivatives], the CIO could have simply reduced its existing positions; instead, starting in mid-January, it embarked on a complex strategy that entailed adding positions that it believed would offset the existing ones.

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On May 31, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued no - action relief to the Shanghai Clearing House regarding its registration as a derivatives clearing organization in the U.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.

In addressing this question, I will draw on preliminary results from a recent Bank for International Settlements (BIS) survey of derivative activity.

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...

Robert C. Merton, the Nobel laureate economist at Harvard and a co-writer of the paper on derivatives with Mr. Draghi, says that in addition to exploring how countries might use derivatives to mitigate their risks, their study examined how markets habitually underestimate the risk of contagion.

In December 2017, ETHNews reported on the NYSE's hesitation to enter the bitcoin derivatives market.

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Global financial markets, which lost heavily on derivatives, are already in free fall.

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.»

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.

Indeed, what they describe is exactly how a large trader could and would «bang the auction» to influence the settlement price of VIX derivatives, in order to profit on positions in those derivatives.

The equity derivatives market is in many ways so complex that the financial press doesn't even report on it.

«We didn't think it was obvious to rush out a product and be first,» said CEO Jeff Sprecher on Tuesday, expressing concern about the lack of transparency at cryptocurrency exchanges, many of which will be referenced in price indexes used for cryptocurrency derivatives.

Oil - related earnings will likely rebound faster than metals over the next few years as banks focus on building revenues in the oil derivatives market, which is historically a much bigger business than metals derivatives, Shahani said.