Supra-national regulator the European Securities and Market Authority has written to the European Commission to ask for a single Europe-wide definition of a derivative or derivative contract.

NORWALK, Conn. (CBS.MW) -- The nation's independent accounting standards overseer on Wednesday said it would propose a change in the definition of a derivative. The proposal by the Financial ...

Derivatives are financial products that derive their value from the price of an underlying asset. Derivatives are often used by traders as a device to speculate on the future price movements of an ...

European companies have been struggling to implement EMIR, which requires them to report all derivative contracts from February 12, amid widespread confusion and culminating in the European Securities ...

A derivative is a financial contract whose value is “derived” from another security, such as a stock, bond, commodity, currency or a market index. The most common types of derivatives are options, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Securities regulators on Monday finalized rules that define what kinds of derivatives products will be regulated under the new regime created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street ...

The Market on which futures, such as derivatives are sold. Sales are made on the basis of a guaranteed future sale at a current price, which is known as the "underlying". The terms "contracts" or ...