Derivatives

Attachments

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation (2007)
Derivative
Financial Engineering
Investment Vehicles
Securities

A Long Road to Regulating Derivatives
A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives
BISTROs (Broad Indexed Secured Trust Offerings)
CDOs (Collateralized Debt Obligations)
CDSs (Credit Default Swaps)
Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs = CDOs on leveraged corp debt)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (1974 CFTC)
Death By Derivatives (timeline)
Derivatives are “financial hydrogen bombs, built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.”
Derivatives Are Not Recorded Standardized and Tracked
Derivatives Are Weapons Of Slow Economic Destruction: Study
Derivatives Still Plague the Financial System
Derivatives: Innovation in the Era of Financial Regulation (2013)
FIASCO: Blood in the Water on Wall Street (1997)
Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks
Forward Contracts
Futures (financial)
Interest Rate Swaps
International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)
It's the derivatives, stupid!
Modern Finance (diagram)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Rise of the Machines
Wall Street Quants