Sentence examples for form of derivative from inspiring English sources

Howard was 27 and had recently been made redundant by HSBC, where he sold credit default swaps, a form of derivative that became notorious during the financial crisis.

The funds own 8.7percentt of the company's shares, and have positions in equity swaps — a form of derivative contract — that amount to another 12.3percentt of the shares.

Having developed the art of commerce-linked currency exchanges into a lucrative form of derivative – to avoid making straight loans – they were never sure whether they were usurers or not.

Still, some banks are clearly nervous about the AOL loan, based on the prices being quoted for credit default insurance, or a form of derivative contract that allows banks to protect their principal in the event of a loan default.

The value of one form of derivative traded in America, known as a "swaps contract", in which counterparties agree to exchange cash flows from two financial products, exceeds $400 trillion.

"If you've got a company that settles a case involving its research analysts one year, and several years later it is accused of fraud in selling a C.D.O. to customers, those are very different parts of a company," Mr. Khuzami said, referring to collateralized debt obligations, a form of derivative that contributed to the housing bubble.

These equity swaps are an opaque form of derivatives.

Many banks provided some form of derivatives financing for hedge funds engaged in frequent trading of mutual funds, said Frank Partnoy, professor of law at the University of San Diego who was a derivatives salesman in the mid-1990's.

They were blamed for the near collapse of the American International Group, the insurance company that was a crucial trading partner with Wall Street firms in one widely used form of derivatives.

Foreigners have invested close to $18 billion in Indian shares this year, more than half of which is estimated to have been in the form of derivatives, known as participatory notes.

The trades described in that complaint relate to another form of derivatives trading, which involved selling a portfolio of securities mimicking the holdings of the mutual fund, which would protect the hedge fund against a loss if the fund's value declined.