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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

Derivatives are financial contracts whose value is derived from an underlying asset. This asset can be a stock, index, ...

CFTC announces plans to integrate stablecoins as tokenized collateral in derivatives markets, aiming to enhance trading ...

Symmio introduces symmetrical contracts and intent-based trading to unlock permissionless, capital-efficient derivatives on-chain—no centralized clearing, no order books, just smart contracts and pure ...

Cryptocurrency derivatives trading is one of the most dynamic areas of digital assets today. However, the user interfaces of many cryptocurrency exchanges have long been a source of frustration for ...

In January 2023, the market regulator issued a circular, permitting stock exchanges to introduce derivative contracts on ...