On the expiration of the derivative contract, the prices of derivatives congregate with the prices of the underlying.

Often the parties can not easily agree on terms to close a derivative contract.

The recent movement in the prices of derivative contracts based on local house price indices tell an astonishingly gloomy story.

A cat's cradle of derivative contracts links the world's financial institutions.

The bank could, through buying a derivatives contract, cut the risk that the deficit will grow.

Another one for small businesses that were mis-sold toxic derivatives products has concluded.

The complex derivatives products were supposed to protect against any rise in interest rates.

Both take oil and oil derivative products and turn them into polymer products for uses including paints, varnishes and adhesives.

The cash pile totals include cash equivalents, short-term investments and financial derivative products.

Swaps are derivatives products that were mis-sold to tens of thousands of small business owners.

It said a levy of just 0.005 per cent on currency exchanges and derivative trading would raise the haul.

The losses were caused when a credit derivative trading portfolio imploded.

In 1998, the exchange also got permission to start derivative trading.

Farmers have used a simple form of derivative trading in the commodity market for centuries for price risk management.

The talks underscore the ambitions of both exchanges to diversify from traditional equity and derivatives trading as competition in the exchanges sector intensifies.

Once the sport was out of the way, he settled down to setting up the bank's equity derivatives business from scratch.

Both hedge funds through the equity derivatives markets and private equity funds via listed company bids continue to boost share prices.

In this month's issue it names its equity derivatives house of the year.

Risk and equity derivatives specialists are particularly sought after.

It has a sufficiently wide product range for some sectors to be up when others are down - the first half saw precious little interest in equity derivatives, for example.

They include paying the bonus through financial derivatives called 'contracts for difference'.

Instead of building bridges, skyscrapers or spacecraft, they had constructed complex financial derivatives.

For three decades we have relied on the financial account — direct and portfolio investment and, perhaps scarily, financial derivatives — to keep our heads above water.

The banking system remains as unreconstructed as before the crisis, and still teeters on an inverted pyramid of financial derivatives.

Straightforward financial derivatives had the virtue of being easily understood.

It enjoys the biggest leads in cross-border bank lending, marine insurance, over-the-counter derivatives and commercial banking.

It also announced unspecified trading losses because of the risk of counterparties to over-the-counter derivatives trades.

The market can be divided into two, that for exchange-traded derivatives and that for over-the-counter derivatives.

This approach had opened up gaps in oversight of critical areas with trillions of dollars at risk, such as the shadow banking system and over-the-counter derivatives markets.