Options and futures markets
CME Group: The futures of capitalism
The biggest financial exchange you have never heard of12
Derivatives reform in America: Swapping bad ideas
A big battle is unfolding over an even bigger market4
Intrade in trouble: Bet lynched
A flagship prediction market faces insolvency0
Derivatives markets regulation: Back to the futures?
Over-the-counter swap trades are starting to move onto futures exchanges. Should we worry? If so, why?12
Prediction markets: Don’t bet on it
Intrade retreats from American regulators10
Buttonwood: Marshmallows and markets
Could guarantees make pensions more appealing?9
America’s financial system: Law and disorder
Financial institutions are vulnerable to investigation, prosecution and litigation from every direction66
Derivatives exchanges: Open deck
Shifting more derivatives trades into the open creates opportunities4
Probe watch: Investigations galore
It’s not just LIBOR. Banks and brokers are under scrutiny from all quarters5
Barclays pays a heavy price for falsifying its LIBOR submissions16
Barclays’ LIBOR embarrassment: Eagle fried
Barclays pays a heavy price for falsifying its LIBOR submissions135
An intellectual-property exchange: Marketplace of ideas
A new financial exchange hopes to make it easier to trade patent rights10
Derivatives regulation: Too few cops on the beat
American regulators are trying to keep tabs on lots more trading with too little staff16
Centrally cleared derivatives: Clear and present danger
Clearing-houses may add danger as well as efficiency8
Centrally cleared derivatives: Plumbing problems
Clearing-houses may add danger as well as efficiency9
High-frequency trading: The fast and the furious
High-frequency trading seems scary, but what does the evidence show?26
Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext: Why the marriage failed
The deal’s failure comes down to three disagreements about the competition, actual or potential, between exchanges2
Business books quarterly: Pricing the future
Our podcast about a new history of the futures market0
Setting a price on the future: The mathematics of markets
The formula that changed finance22
Commodities trading: Tying the hands of speculators
The Commodities Futures Trading Commission approves measures to rein in commodity speculation18
Financial innovation: Please form an orderly queue
Not a product for widows and orphans8
Commodity markets: Back to the futures
Regulators are homing in on new rules to rein in speculators4
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