About Quote by Paul Singer

“The solutions to this systemic risk overhang are surprisingly straightforward. The immediate tasks would be to break up large banks and ban most derivatives.…

— James Rickards

With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to…

— Ben Bernanke

I am not really inclined to think there is any very effective regulation of the derivative securities markets that would be useful. People who…

— Kenneth Arrow

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those…

— Alan Greenspan

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning…

— Alan Greenspan

People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk.

— Fred Ehrsam

In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The…

— John Lanchester

From my point of view, the American financial system - including banks and investment banks - is far safer because of capital and liquidity…

— Jamie Dimon

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

— Paul Singer

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

— James Rickards

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

— Warren Buffett

We have institutions that have been allowed to become too big to fail because we had all kinds of flaws in our financial infrastructure,…

— Henry Paulson