Among the most important changes in world financial markets over the past two decades has been the emergence of a myriad of new and rediscovered financial instruments in the form of derivative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Derivatives are financial instruments that "derive" (hence the name) their value from an underlying asset. That underlying asset ...

The scale of derivatives held by major banks like JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citibank and Goldman Sachs, amounting to $203 trillion, has raised concerns about the potential risks these positions might pose ...

Persuaded that lax regulation of financial derivatives contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers in Congress and the Obama Administration have adopted a knee-jerk solution: regulate ...

Despite what Wall Street may have you believe, Congress needs to establish speed limits and traffic lights to improve derivative safety, write David Min and Pat Garofalo. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) ...