Video: How Do Derivatives Help Firms Access Global Markets?

Derivatives markets have always been global, which has greatly helped companies around the world better manage their risks.

ISDA’s new whiteboard animation video shows how derivatives allow companies to borrow outside their domestic market and hedge that risk efficiently.

If you can’t access the YouTube video above, please click here.

This video is also available on ISDA’s Facebook page.

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