Equity derivative markets largely ground to a halt on May 7 – or “Black Friday” as it subsequently became known among traders. A day after the US Flash Crash wiped trillions off the value of world ...

"More people are paying attention to credit risk than before, so it is true that the subset of investors that are being particularly prudent has increased," says Alberto Cherubini, head of exotic ...

What Is an Equity Derivative? Equity derivatives are financial instruments that derive their value from underlying equity securities such as stocks or stock indexes. These versatile tools give ...

Corporate users of equity derivatives continue to seek out simple, transparent products. Until regulatory overhaul is complete, this tack is unlikely to change. The ripples from the 2008 financial ...

As some of the world’s biggest banks start experimenting with complex ESG derivatives, Europe’s markets regulator says it’s time to impose new rules to protect investors from greenwashing. The ...

In the wake of the credit crunch in 2007 and the stock market crash of 2008, hundreds of billions of dollars poured out of stocks and bonds and into commodities, which were seen as a safe haven. That ...

Following the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) publication of the results of the annual transparency calculations for non-equity instruments, Nasdaq Derivatives Markets (Nasdaq ...

In a year when many of the top guns in equity derivatives responded to large correlation and dividend-related losses by pulling back from the market, one house learned from its previous mistakes by ...