The intrinsic complexity of the financial derivatives market has emerged as both an incentive to engage in it, and a key source of its inherent instability. Regulators now faced with the challenge of ...

For far too long, brokers have been selling their older clients complex investments known as structured products. These products are so risky, and so costly in fees, that some of them are almost sure ...

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 ...

The financial industry has been rapidly integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance various aspects of its operations, including the pricing of interest rate derivative contracts. Interest ...

On occasion, it is important to revisit issues that have been swept under the rug or simply overlooked. For most people, the derivatives market falls into this category, partly because they don't ...

In an era where financial institutions grapple with managing massive derivative portfolios, Shachi Ghanshyam Sayata's groundbreaking work at Barclays has redefined how large-scale interest rate ...

Some of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's conclusions are on the right track; others aren't too far off; but some are simply wrong. Just reading the summary, one clearly misguided claim ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...