Orc Software (Orc), a provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity, has announced that Audentes Technology, a Chicago-based trading firm, has selected Orc Software's ...

A derivative is a financial instrument that gains value from the performance or price of an underlying asset, such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and indices. It is set between two or more ...

Not long ago, the language of derivatives belonged almost exclusively to institutional finance. Terms like margin exposure, leveraged positions and contract differentials were largely confined to ...