An economic derivative is a financial contract where payouts depend on future economic indicators. It helps manage risk and speculate on economic forecasts.

Asia Pacific accounted for the largest share of derivatives trading of any region during October 2025 at 62% of all futures ...

Discover how equity derivatives work, their uses in hedging and speculation, and see examples of these financial instruments like options and futures.

Economic forecasters often look to the performance of futures markets to help predict such economic developments as movements in the price of oil and other commodities. In addition, relatively new ...

A Senate panel on Wednesday plans to take up a measure imposing regulations on over-the-counter derivatives — the privately traded financial contracts that businesses use to hedge their bets on the ...

Brett Harrison's Architect secures $35M to expand institutional trading infrastructure for derivatives and digital assets.

Derivatives are financial instruments that "derive" (hence the name) their value from an underlying asset. That underlying asset can be stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, even market indexes. For ...

Former FTX US president Brett Harrison has raised $35 million to build an institutional trading platform offering crypto, equities, futures and perpetuals.

It has been a roller coaster ride in the derivatives world in 2025. We look back at some of the most notable events that have ...