The Financial Accounting Standards Board posted a proposed accounting standards update to improve interest rate risk hedging ...

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FASB published two Accounting Standards Updates recently. One is intended to improve accounting guidance for interest rate ...

The steep rise in interest rates over the past year is forcing some borrowers to accept a new rule: no hedge, no loan. Highly indebted companies are increasingly facing requirements to hedge their ...

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Wall Street investors use financial derivatives to hedge against shifts in interest rates and exchange rates. Farmers use them to lock in the price of their crops. Now, one New York City bar is using ...

If there is one topic that is being discussed repeatedly at defined benefit pension scheme trustee meetings, it is the impact of falling gilt yields. Pension schemes are required to value their ...

Interest rates are anchored at extremely low levels, reflecting monetary easing measures undertaken by central banks globally. This has encouraged some pension schemes to postpone hedging liabilities ...

The U.S. Global Jets ETF is often used by investors as a practical proxy for the publicly traded airline industry. Short interest in an ETF like JETS tends to rise when investors want a single, ...

Ginnie Mae announced on Thursday that it will allow relief from its risk-based capital ratio (RBCR) requirements for any mortgage-backed securities (MBS) issuers that effectively hedge the value of ...

Markets are beginning to price in a more fragile macroeconomic backdrop. The Iran war has pushed oil prices higher, but the bigger story is what's happening underneath: Growth is slowing just as ...