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Some things have changed radically over the last decade, however, the most important being the structure of financial markets. The Great Financial Crisis was arguably caused by the digitalization of ...

Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin issued a call on Tuesday for regulation of the “over the counter” derivatives market, which has an estimated size of about $596 trillion. By contrast, the value of the world’s ...

A financial statement expresses the value of an enterprise by listing and evaluating its parts. In the process, the statement sets forth as accurately as possible each asset and liability. Determining ...

If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer? But the truth ...

Derivatives products, like options contracts — financial instruments that give investors the right but not the obligation to buy or sell an asset at a pre-determined price — will drive the Bitcoin ...

21 March 2010The Bahrain Financial Exchange (BFX), the Multi-Asset exchange in the MENA region, which will be internationally accessible to trade cash instruments, derivatives, structured products and ...

ABN AMRO has taken a significant step in its digital innovation strategy after its German subsidiary, Hauck Aufhäuser Digital Custody, secured authorisation ...