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Derivatives play a vital role in today’s global economy. They are powerful and versatile tools. Derivatives enable financial institutions, large corporations, and high-net-worth individuals to manage their exposure to financial risk in its manifold forms. The global derivatives market operates seamlessly around the clock, trading a constantly mutating variety of complex instruments on rapidly changing technology platforms.
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Bank for International Settlements, “OTC Derivatives Statistics at End-June 2013,” www.bis.org/publ/otc_hy1311.pdf , November 2013.
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Bank for International Settlements, “Derivatives Traded on Organized Exchanges,” http://www.bis.org/statistics/r_qa1312_hanx23a.pdf , November 2013.
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Shaik, K. (2014). The Derivatives Market. In: Managing Derivatives Contracts. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6275-6_1
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