• May 2 2025
  Special ReportRisk Management: Financial Institutions

  Is ‘hidden leverage’ an accident waiting to happen?

  Investors and regulators at odds over threat posed by hard-to-detect debt

  
• March 6 2025
  LexForeign exchange

  FX traders find silver lining in geopolitical grey clouds Premium content

  Where there is volatility, there is often a trading opportunity

  
• February 12 2025
  Markets volatility

  Investors rush to protect against Wall Street ‘volatility spikes’

  US stocks have risen this year, but traders are hedging against big swings induced by Trump’s erratic policymaking

  
• February 12 2025
  Indian business & finance

  India’s crackdown on derivatives frenzy to hit online brokers

  Intervention to curb options trading has brought down volumes by 70%

  
• February 10 2025
  Deutsche Bank AG

  Deutsche Bank fined €10mn by Spanish regulator over forex mis-selling

  German watchdog BaFin set to conclude its own investigation in coming weeks

  
• February 7 2025
  Investments

  How investors can harness Trump-induced volatility

  Some want their portfolio to take cover with cash or gold — for others, it’s a huge buying opportunity

  
• January 22 2025
  Clearing & Settlement

  Brussels proposes extending EU banks’ access to UK clearing houses

  European Commission wants to prolong existing arrangements that benefit City of London

  
• January 10 2025
  Exchange traded funds

  BlackRock filing for hedge fund strategy ETF underlines new tilt

  Move demonstrates manager’s new determination to democratise alternatives and could be timely, analysts say

  
• December 24 2024
  Exchange traded funds

  MicroStrategy mania exposes rare faultline in ETF industry

  Sharp deviations have appeared in expected returns of two leveraged funds amid surge in bets

  
• December 11 2024
  UK insurance industry

  BoE plans tougher liquidity rules for insurers following ‘critical gaps’

  Mini-budget and pandemic showed need for more frequent reporting, regulator says

  
• November 24 2024
  Starbucks Corp

  Starbucks pares hedging programme despite coffee market surge

  Buyer of 3 per cent of world’s coffee holds less than $200mn in fixed-price contracts, down from $1bn in 2019

  
• November 11 2024
  New titans of Wall Street — an FT series

  Is Chicago’s Don Wilson the smartest man in trading?

  From cleaning up after Lehman Brothers to early bets on Bitcoin, DRW has become an industry colossus

  
• November 6 2024
  Futures contracts

  CME customers criticise futures exchange after it wins approval to also act as broker

  Derivatives traders warn of potential ‘conflicts of interest’ as Chicago group gains licence

  
• November 1 2024
  Exchange traded funds

  Low-volatility ETFs lose favour as investors jump to buffered peers

  Despite poor returns in recent years, analysts say people could be missing out on their long-term investment potential

  
• October 30 2024
  Behind the Money podcast20 min listen

  US election betting is on a roll

  In the months leading up to election day, people from around the world have placed millions of dollars in wagers on who will be the next American president

  
• October 28 2024
  Cryptocurrencies

  Crypto exchanges turn to derivatives to lure cautious investors

  New market entrants switch focus to offering leveraged bets

  
• October 21 2024
  New titans of Wall Street — an FT series

  How Susquehanna’s Jeff Yass mastered the options game

  Obsession with odds spawned a trading giant — and shaped the industry’s approach to markets

  
• October 2 2024
  FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen

  A day of escalation in the Middle East

  Iran launches missiles into Israel following IDF ground offensive in Lebanon

  
• October 1 2024
  India tightens derivatives trading rules after retail options frenzy

  Regulator aims to clamp down on country’s retail trading mania

  
• October 1 2024
  Investors turn to volatility trades to profit from tight US election

  Traders opt for complex derivative bets instead of predicting who will win, as November vote takes centre stage in markets

  
• September 30 2024
  Lithium

  CME expands lithium futures battle with LME as battery demand soars

  US futures exchange launches contracts for raw material used in electric vehicle chargers

  
• September 24 2024
  EU business regulation

  Nasdaq and Deutsche Börse raided in EU antitrust investigation

  Offices targeted in two countries as Brussels scrutinises derivatives market for potential anti-competitive practices

  
• September 23 2024
  BGC Partners Inc

  BGC’s Howard Lutnick takes on CME with interest rate futures debut

  Bank of England’s credibility under fire from Chicago in battle with New York

  
• September 20 2024
  Carbon trading

  US adopts first guidelines to shore up carbon credit markets

  Derivatives regulator sets basic standards amid concerns about greenwashing and ineffective offsets

  
• August 14 2024
  Behind the Money podcast21 min listen

  Is there a bubble waiting to burst in India?

  Investors could be in for a rude awakening