The cover is the first clue: this is not your usual derivatives textbook. Two eager commodities traders — a rabbit, bearing acorns, and a squirrel, bearing carrots — face off across the front of a new ...

The governing agreements for a wide range of transactions, from the most basic financing arrangements to the most complex derivatives trading relationships, frequently include a “cross-default” event ...

International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) rules that require financial instruments to be accounted for at fair value, known as IAS 39, could have a detrimental effect on sales of complex ...

The county treasurer, Robert Citron, borrowed $14 billion in 1991 and invested it in complex derivatives contracts, primarily with Merrill Lynch & Company. According to The New York Times, this sort ...

For treasurers of both large and small corporations, a key part of their workflow revolves around derivatives trading such as NDF swaps and foreign currency options. The prices of such instruments, ...