Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The interest rates business is the single-biggest revenue source in the investment banking industry. Rates revenues exceeded those of the credit business even during the credit bubble years. But now ...

The post-pandemic trading bonanza reached new heights in 2025 as investors reacted to a stream of news, from US president Donald Trump’s trade policies and the AI boom to the prospect of a new Federal ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday released a fresh set of draft regulations aimed at updating the rules for Rupee Interest Rate Derivatives (IRD), in a move designed to bring the regulatory ...

Discover how the net interest rate spread impacts financial institutions' profitability by comparing loans' yield to the ...

Financial market crises provide the ultimate stress test of investment banks’ trading operations. Swooning markets expose creaking infrastructure; gung-ho traders suddenly find their riskiest bets ...