Over-the-counter foreign exchange trading rose almost 30% to $6.6 trillion per day in April 2019, up from $5.1 trillion three years earlier. Since I worked on the FX survey in 1990, FX trading has ...

In The Wall Street Journal, Mark C. Brickell explaines that swaps grew out of the banking system because writing risky, custom contracts is a lot like making loans.

WASHINGTON - Over-the-counter derivatives that are securities-based should be regulated under federal securities laws by the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC chairman Mary Schapiro told a ...

New regulatory data reveal extensive price discrimination against non-financial clients in the FX derivatives market. The client at the 90th percentile pays an effective spread of 0.5%, while the ...

Government officials called on Congress to approve a plan for joint regulation of the over-the-counter derivatives market in the wake of the role derivatives played in contributing to the global ...

Discover the essential differences between shares and derivatives, and learn how to effectively use these financial instruments to achieve your investment goals.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The notional amount of outstanding over-the-counter derivatives -- derivatives that do not trade on an exchange -- were $516 trillion at the end of June, which corresponds ...

In the coming days, the U.S. Senate will take up legislation to expand oversight of the financial system to include the shadowy market for over-the-counter derivatives, complex financial ...

By some measures the over-the-counter derivatives business is the largest business in the world with over $600 trillion in transactions outstanding. This business plays a significant role in the ...

EU and US industry and regulatory figures have warned that the number and nature of repositories listing over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trades is threatening to blind regulators to market risk.

Canada will give banking regulators more power to oversee derivatives trading as part of a series of steps to shield the nation’s financial industry.