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Based on that knowledge, perhaps it’s not too surprising that multiple kinds of derivatives – credit default swaps (CDS), for one – were at the center of the global financial crisis in 2008 ...

In Australia, financial derivatives include options, futures, and swaps, often tied to ASX-listed stocks. Let’s take a look at how derivatives work.

But like the scavenging bird hovering above a weary desert beast, the swaps have an important role to play. They insure the buyer against the default of a bond, or an index of bonds. As with other ...

Even in the current financial crisis, the derivative scapegoat, credit default swaps (CDS), has played some positive roles. For example, CDSs enabled lenders to hedge their risk and offer loans.

But the ‘net notional’ swap amount on the country’s debt is $12.2 billion, after canceling out overlapping trades, DTCC said. Even those net amounts can be misleading.

Source: Bloomberg Recall that an interest rate swap (IRS) is a financial derivative instrument that involves an exchange of a fixed interest rate for a floating interest rate. More specifically, ...

US Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Chairman Thomas Harkin (D-Iowa) introduced legislation on Nov. 20 to reform the trading of swaps and other over-the-counter financial ...

By Jessica Holzer Nov. 12, 2010 1:17 pm ET|WSJ Pro Share ...

Financial instruments are becoming increasingly complicated, and a new survey of CPA financial executives by the AICPA found concern about the valuation of instruments such as derivatives, with fears ...