A careful selection of maturities for U.S. Treasury securities and bank CDs can protect you against interest rate risk while ...

Hedge funds shifting dollar risk into leveraged swaps poses a hidden debt threat in the global financial system, highlighting the dangers of overreliance on liquidity and leverage in the face ...

Bond futures are financial derivative contracts that obligate the buyer and seller to transact a specified bond at a predetermined price and date. These contracts allow market participants to ...

Lynn Strongin Dodds assesses the ISDA report on the impact the US, EU and UK’s changing monetary policies had on the IRD landscape. It has been a busy time for interest rate derivative (IRD) traders ...

Few U.S. banks protected themselves against rising interest rates during the Federal Reserve’s monetary-tightening campaign last year, according to a research paper that says unhedged securities ...

For some investors, they bet on a vehicle known as "Federal Funds futures" to hedge. For others, it's just that — a bet. You can make a bet on pretty much anything in this country, including Federal ...

What happened in 2025 was not luck or a product of a roaring bull market. It was the continuation of a structural regime shift that began around 2020.

Changing the law or pressuring regulators does not change the underlying economics. Interest rates are not arbitrary numbers set to frustrate consumers. They are prices, and like all prices, they ...

The International Accounting Standards Board proposed a new accounting model to reflect how banks and other financial institutions manage interest rate risks in their portfolios. Processing Content ...