Pre-financial crisis, interest rate derivatives were widely recognized as a valuable part of the municipal issuer’s financial toolkit. Post-crisis, they have been a thorn in the side of many issuers, ...

Newly elected CII president KV Kamath on Thursday said the recent derivative losses faced by banks is a learning experience for them. Kamath, who is the managing director and CEO of ICICI Bank, which ...

It is almost 11 months since growing losses among US subprime mortgage loans provoked widespread ratings downgrades of mortgage-backed securities and collateralised debt obligations. With credit sent ...

The use of a derivative agreement to mitigate risk can be traced back to around 1754BC, when the Code of Hammurabi was set in stone in Babylon. That was 3,723 years before Euromoney began publication ...

To begin with, could you explain the background of the study and the reasons behind the extended ban on futures trading in agricultural commodities? Certainly. The market regulator extended the ban on ...