Even in the early stages of Enron Corp. s collapse, financial services institutions faced a balancing act between two major considerations, financial risks and customer relationships. Of course, banks ...

A report on financial risk based on a survey answered by 175 bankers, regulators and corporate users was published last month by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation. They were asked to ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Last week, I heard a lecture by Hartmut Rosa, a social theorist who teaches, among ...

Over the last decade, a variety of financial tools have been developed for transferring credit risk between financial institutions. Credit risk is defined as the risk that the value of a corporate ...

The use of a derivative agreement to mitigate risk can be traced back to around 1754BC, when the Code of Hammurabi was set in stone in Babylon. That was 3,723 years before Euromoney began publication ...

Alternative funds can be imposing to some investors. These funds might employ complex investment strategies and sometimes the financial instruments they hold can be tough to decipher. That’s ...