Newly elected CII president KV Kamath on Thursday said the recent derivative losses faced by banks is a learning experience for them. Kamath, who is the managing director and CEO of ICICI Bank, which ...

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As part of the efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission to deepen the Nigerian capital market via the introduction of derivative products, a delegation from Nigeria comprising representatives ...

If proof were needed that history is doomed to repeat itself, it came recently in the form of a study into how end-users manage the derivatives they buy. After the collapse of three of the market’s ...

Given a function f(x), and two points on the curve (a, f(a)) and (b, f(b)) the line joining these two points is called a secant line of f. (Not to be confused with the trigonometric secant (sec) ...

Financial derivatives are financial instruments that are linked to a specific financial instrument or indicator or commodity, and through which specific financial risks can be traded in financial ...

In the past few decades, the world of financial derivatives has experienced an explosion in the development of quantitative methods. Remarkably, very little of that development went into supporting ...

Investors should heed the lessons of the credit crunch by changing the products they invest in, said senior BNP Paribas bankers speaking at Risk's 2008 Derivatives Summit. It is almost 11 months since ...