Financial products and financial derivatives transactions are on front page in the profile publications, because they have generated huge gains for a small part of market participants, and losses as well, sometimes followed by collapse even on the international financial institutions. Very...

Emerging European countries have made large strides in developing their local capital markets since the early-1990s. However, the rate of development has been widely disparate across countries and market segments, underpinned by the varying degrees of progress made in key areas such as...

This technical note provides an overview of Mexico’s derivatives markets, and describes concisely the derivatives regulatory framework and risk management practices in financial institutions active in these markets. The most important derivatives market in Mexico is the over-the-counter...