On Thursday, the smart contract protocol Counterparty reached its millionth transaction. Bitcoin Magazine received an update on the status of the project from Shawn Leary, the newly elected ...

Counterparty risk is the chance that the other party in a financial transaction may not meet their obligations. It can occur in loans, derivatives and trading contracts with banks, insurers, or other ...

Acuiti’s latest report found that nearly 50% of surveyed participants were concerned with counterparty risk, compared to 31% for operational risk, 13% for liquidity risk and only 6% for market risk.

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The study, entitled Risk and Reward: Hedge Funds Changing Views on ...

Before the 2007 financial crisis, collateral management was just a simple, cash-denoted process to insure firms against the risk of default by their counterparties. But, regulatory aftershocks in the ...

The burgeoning online gaming industry is turning its attention to incorporating digital currencies, including bitcoin, into various platforms to get people excited about blockchain and the use of the ...

Do you know who your counterparty is? Most of you reading this article will respond – of course, I do. At the start of the business relationship, accounting performed its due diligence, checking for ...