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(Bloomberg) -- Egypt’s central bank is set to allow new currency derivatives to unlock liquidity in the local market, making available instruments to hedge against risks to the pound after it fell to ...

On March 28, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) Division of Market Oversight (“DMO”) and Division of Clearing and Risk (“DCR”) withdrew Staff Advisory No. 18-14, Advisory with ...

High degrees of electronification made currency markets well-prepared for pandemic-era trading, as banks that had invested heavily in technology were able to help clients navigate this turbulent ...

Friday, March 27, 2025, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) formally withdrew two crypto-related staff advisories, Staff Advisory No. 18-14 (advisory with respect to virtual currency ...

SHANGHAI, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A record number of listed firms in China are embracing currency derivatives and fuelling a boom in onshore trade of the instruments, the latest data shows, as companies ...

Heightened volatility created a challenging year for currency desks as clients scrambled for hedges in the aftermath of "liberation day" in April. For gaining market share during the turbulence while ...

Discover the ins and outs of fixed-for-fixed currency swaps, where parties exchange fixed interest payments across different ...

Exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs) continue to boom, with FX the fastest-growing asset class in 2011, according to data from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) on the number of contracts traded.

The evolution of the use of derivatives by corporations in Latin America has not been straightforward. The fallout from the spectacular misuse of FX hedging products by some Latin American corporates ...

(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is expanding its use of a technology that leverages artificial intelligence in the hopes that it will make it easier for clients to plan complex derivatives ...