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Jerry del Missier reaped the rewards as derivatives moved to the heart of modern finance, then experienced the backlash when public opinion turned against the side effects of innovation. After ...

You might have expected Congress to muddy financial regulation with carve outs and compromises that water down the Senate bill. But it hasn't worked that way for derivatives. Sen. Blanche Lincoln ...

Wall Street banks reeling from a flurry of activity by departing U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler are considering taking the agency to court. Gensler has issued more ...

Derivatives are financial instruments that "derive" (hence the name) their value from an underlying asset. That underlying asset can be stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, even market indexes. For ...

A number of years ago, Warren Buffett referred to derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction." Since then, Wall Street has tried to pooh-pooh this description, but the facts speak for ...

On May 10, JPMorgan and Co. announced that it would lose $2 billion, and possibly much more, on a derivatives trade gone awry. Ironically, this trade was designed to protect the bank against losses on ...