What are derivatives? In short, they’re complex financial instruments that investors should think carefully about before buying. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our ...

Derivatives allow trading of assets without owning them, useful for hedging or speculation. Leverage in derivatives can control large assets with less cash, but increases risk. Derivatives provide ...

Intent-Based Trading: Making Derivatives More Accessible Instead of requiring traders to navigate traditional order books or liquidity pools, Symmio utilizes an intent-based model. Users define ...

Crypto derivatives have become an increasingly large part of the global crypto asset markets, enabling traders to speculate on price movement or hedge their market exposure. Read on to learn what ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former banker and author of “Traders, Guns and Money” and “A Banquet of Consequences ...

Perpetuals are similar to futures but have no explicit expiry date. Volatility in crypto derivatives can be taken advantage of to speculate on future price movements while enjoying low fees and ...

Trading volume has also quadrupled in a year. Weather derivatives were born in the late 1990s. Driven in part by U.S. energy company Enron, the market expanded and attracted speculators who were ...

The scale of derivatives held by major banks like JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citibank and Goldman Sachs, amounting to $203 trillion, has raised concerns about the potential risks these positions might ...

Big in flow, big in prime, big in quant strategies. A long-standing powerhouse in equity derivatives, Bank of America has consistently ticked most of the right boxes – except for one niggling omission ...

Derivatives shops, used to clearing hundreds of billions of dollars in trades every day, found themselves in a dramatically different era this week: the old days of manually processing deals.