Combining wit and humor, Satyajit Das shares some brutally honest yet enlightening insights collected during his 25 years in the derivatives market.

Liar’s Poker is a highly entertaining book about Wall Street in the late 80′s, an insider’s view on how one of the most successful investment firms of that era operated.

The U.S. Senate passed the Frank-Dodd financial reform bill aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2008 credit crisis.

In Richard Bookstaber’s 2007 recounting of every major financial crisis since the 1980s, the details are everything.

"F.I.A.S.C.O.:Blood in the Water on Wall Street" is about Frank Partnoy's journey through Wall Street and what happens when derivatives creation gets out of hand. (image courtesy of Frank Partnoy)

John Taylor delivers Friday's keynote address at the ISDA annual general meeting. (Alexandra Harris/MEDILL)

“It’s amazing what facts can show and not rhetoric,” ISDA CEO Conrad “Connie” Voldstad said.

Panelists discuss the need for regulation during "Systemic Risk: Advances and Challenges in the Wake of the Crisis" at the ISDA General Meeting. (Alexandra Harris/MEDILL)

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As the global financial markets unraveled, and words like “derivatives”, “credit default swaps” and “collateralized debt obligations” seeped into America’s lexicon, Brooksley Born stayed quiet.

Andrew Ross Sorkin speaks to Chicago audience Feb. 9. Photo by Chris Guillen

It was Tuesday evening in Chicago, and though you may have watched him co-host CNBC’s Squawk Box from New York that same morning, there was Andrew Ross Sorkin giving a talk about Wall Street and his new book, “Too [...]

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Monday night University of San Diego professor Frank Partnoy appeared on “The Daily Show” to discuss his new book about Ivar Kreuger, the most effectively damaging ponzi scheme artist to have emerged over the past century, known to most by his honorific, the “match king.”  But before [...]