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Oanda is an anomaly among the many trading platforms that offer retail FX.

The asset-backed securities market in Latin America might be hampered by inadequate regulation, said the Bank for International Settlements in a report released last month.

CMBS debate: New jurisdictions offer hope as markets turn volatile

Negative headlines continue but innovation is reviving CPDOs.

In the light of the troubled times the covered bond market has found itself in, the European Covered Bond Council has proposed to establish an emergency committee.

Investors may have learnt the lesson that bonds aren’t supposed to provide equity-like returns.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the trade group for the over-the-counter derivatives market, has launched an all-encompassing equity derivatives protocol, called the Isda Equity MCA Protocol, that the organization says constitutes a "significant step in a program to enhance operational efficiency in the equity derivatives markets internationally".

Goldman Sachs shows that marking to market goes hand in hand with good risk management and smart position taking.

Bank to expand retail business.

The ADR has been a very important equity market tool for many years. So long in fact that in 2007 the instrument celebrates its 80th birthday. Apparently, the ADR was invented by John Pierpont Morgan, Jr when his friend and fellow American, Harry Gordon Selfridge, the owner of Selfridges, one of London’s most renowned retail stores, asked him to develop a way for Selfridges shares to be sold in New York. Morgan’s good deed for a friend turned into a very profitable line of work, and one that JPMorgan still holds the top spot in. Now the only question that remains is how exactly JPMorgan is planning to commemorate this momentous year.

JPMorgan is making a big push in the Middle East, and particularly in Islamic finance, after announcing last month that it had hired some of the biggest names in investment banking in the region.

Fundamental stability in corporate credit means that banks’ secondary loan books are not their immediate concern. It’s the estimated $300 billion in leveraged loans that they have in their primary market pipelines that’s causing consternation. The primary market for this kind of asset has all but vanished, leaving banks holding the debt.