Passionate about educating investors, Nasdaq has set up Nasdaq Derivatives Academy to answer the demand from investors and other market participants for quality education on equity derivatives.

- How the derivatives clearing requirements of the Dodd Frank Act may impact the derivatives market and your clients and handling regulatory uncertainty - How to keep up with fast-paced regulatory ...

What Is an Equity Derivative? Equity derivatives are financial instruments that derive their value from underlying equity securities such as stocks or stock indexes. These versatile tools give ...

Equity derivatives, as we know them today, are financial instruments that derive their value from price movements of underlying assets, typically a stock or stock index. They’re popular with traders ...

Corporate users of equity derivatives continue to seek out simple, transparent products. Until regulatory overhaul is complete, this tack is unlikely to change. The ripples from the 2008 financial ...

The past several years have emphasised the growing importance of strategic equity solutions as part of corporate finance advisory services for both listed issuers and their controlling shareholders.

While many banks ran for the hills after taking multi-billion dollar hits to their equity derivatives businesses in the wake of the 2008 crisis, others viewed the market meltdown as an opportunity.

This course will enable both in-house and outside counsel to expand their skills and be more valuable to their clients by covering the why, what, when, where and how of derivatives. Derivatives are ...