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Over the next five years it is expected the market for Sharia-compliant offerings will grow by about 15-20% a year.
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After an extremely rocky start perpetuated by investors' long-term deflationary expectations, and the continual threat of increased supply, the Japanese inflation market is showing tentative signs that it is finding its feet.
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In Europe, the E.U. Emissions Trading Scheme set up under Directive 2003/87/EC facilitates the trading of greenhouse gas emissions allowances and credits by emitters and third parties, whether for compliance purposes or for financial gain, and now accounts for more than 60% of the global carbon market.
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Traditional futures users are mostly farmers or commodity producers who hedge the sale of their crops by using futures contracts to lock in certain selling prices.
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On Aug. 30, a plaintiff, as trustee of an irrevocable trust, filed a class action lawsuit against a large financial services provider in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging violations of the federal securities laws and common law fraud.
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As the structured credit market continues to expand in scope, an emerging trend is repackaging risk into credit-like synthetic collateralized securitization structures.
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Property derivatives are currently one of the hot topics among industry participants in Asia.
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A collateralized commodity obligation consists of commodity risk repackaged into a synthetic CDO structure.
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Consider Beta versus VHS in video recording, or GSM versus CDMA and TDMA in cellular telephony.
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The U.S. Inflation swaps market is relatively young, having only begun to trade in meaningful amounts in late 2003.