If a terrorist blows something up or a rogue financial derivative blows itself up, we will have more nervous days.
They are patronized by traders in London's financial district, who can take and adjust complex positions on a bet, just as they can on a financial derivative.
The IOF will be charged at the rate of 1% on the adjusted notional value, acquisition, sale or maturity of financial derivative contracts whose liquidation value is affected by exchange rate variations and result in increase of net short exposure in relation to the calculated end of the previous business day, within the same institution authorized to record derivative contracts.
However, as with anything that the financial industry can monetize via a hedge, a derivative or other financial instrument, you can now purchase cyber liability insurance.
It addresses proprietary trading of all kinds of financial instruments, including derivative instruments.
Clearly, the brutal financial damage that swept the financial community due to unregulated, little-understood derivative contracts like credit default swaps is one of the most controversial issues of the financial meltdown.
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Swaps are derivative trades used by banks, financial companies and commercial companies to offset risks or bet on certain outcomes.
That derivative stew poisoned the entire global financial system.
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IR Peter Drucker's comments on financial services (By invitation, September 25th) dismiss derivative products much too quickly.
Financial Regulations must include price discovery and transparency for all types of Derivative Contracts.
"Even with all the transparency in the world you have to be a genius to understand these statements, " referring to the near-impenetrable description of derivative contracts and other off-balance-sheet items included in the financial reports and footnotes filed by the banks and investment banks.
Obviously if the derivative assets were included in the balance sheet as they are under the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) rules, the price-to-book ratio would be significantly lower.
It greatly magnified and concentrated the mortgage valuation problem, allowed derivative investors to game the system and added to the perception of insolvency for many of the financial institutions which then had to be bailed out.
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True, you can't use derivative money to buy groceries in a supermarket, but until recently, they were accepted currency in most financial markets.
The concept of a derivative product, with a value that depends on at least one risk factor, has been the greatest financial-product innovation of the 20th century.
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