Peter Shapiro, founder of Swap Financial Group and a former New Jersey legislator and county executive, died at his home in East Orange on March 29 after a long illness. He was 71. Processing Content ...

If bad mortgages got the financial system sick, credit default swaps helped spread the illness worldwide. Like many parts of the financial system these days, credit default swaps are so complicated, ...

While Africa and Latin America have dominated these deals, Asia has lagged behind with just 13% of total global ...

Interest rate swaps -- those forward contracts in which one form of future interest payment is swapped for others based on a specific principal amount -- have found a home in the world of ...

What Is Zero-Coupon Inflation Swap? A zero-coupon inflation swap is a type of financial derivative instrument used to hedge or speculate on the impact of inflation. In this swap agreement, one party ...