There is nothing that more destabilizes markets and economies here at home and around the globe than the unchecked combination of 'spec trading' in swaps and commodities.
Other swaps, including credit default swaps not traded through a clearinghouse and commodities swaps, will have to be moved to separately capitalized affiliates in two year's time.
The company filed a lawsuit to recover nearly $1 billion related to a commodities swap with Enron.
Bank officials say a coffee-exporting country might do a commodities swap with the bank to protect itself against price fluctuations in coffee.
There's a particular niche of the financial services sector that is gaining more and more attention: the exchanges, which essentially provide the means for brokers and traders to swap stocks, securities, commodities and derivatives.
That rule, passed in 2010 and called the "swaps pushout rule", dictated that banks had to keep certain arcane, risk-taking businesses away from customer deposits: swaps in stocks, commodities, and similar businesses.
It uses commodities swaps and futures to provide exposure to the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index.
He spent his days calculating financial risk exposures in commodity swap transactions.
Although the invention of mere ownership suffices to make possession stable and to introduce transfer by consent, as described so far it only permits simultaneous swapping of visible commodities.
In addition to tough regulation of commodities, swaps, shadow banking, etc., they support the new Glass-Steagall Act -- sponsored by Senators John McCain, Elizabeth Warren, Maria Cantwell, and Angus King. .
This one took the wraps off government regulations that checked banks, insurance companies and brokerage houses from dumping billions into financial swaps (speculation) on commodities such as oil and food staples.
