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 ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 license holder, CFA Level 1 exam holder, and currently holds a Life, ...

HIGHLIGHTS Why the CFTC is the right agency to take control of the over-the-counter derivatives market The two "complementary regimes" needed for reform Why reform efforts failed in the '90s How to ...

Currently, the regulatory framework, introduced in 2023, allows futures trading on corporate bond indices consisting of ...

We’re pleased to see the Obama Administration has asked for new powers to regulate the trading of derivatives — those “financial instruments” by means of which, in the good old days, big banks ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has asked Greece to explain reports that it engaged in derivatives trades with U.S. investment banks that may have allowed it to mask the size of its debt and ...

And there are many parts of that failure, but one of the failures is that we have not been regulating the over-the-counter derivatives marketplace. Some people will write that credit default swaps ...