أهمية المشتقات المالية في الأسواق المالية العربية

Abstract EN

The reality today proves that the growth and success has become a share of the financial markets, which knew how to read the road map and check the lead by investing in the framework of the so-called derivatives; where the center of gravity in the financial markets turned from just basing on simple financial instruments to pivot heavily on innovation and creativity to create innovative financial products covering the needs of investors.

And the subject of financial derivatives became to occupy an important place in terms of global markets.

The importance of this subject stems from it is a tool being used in more than one purpose, it is the part that can be used for the purpose of hedging price fluctuations and risk management on the other hand can be used to reap returns through speculation in addition to the arbitrage between markets.

The importance of the use of financial derivatives has been established as an aside investment effective in the last two decades of the twentieth century; since gained wide acceptance and has become one of the most important areas of investment for all types of goods and metals, securities and which can be applied on by financial derivatives; they spread actually to include some Arab countries, and the rest of the Arab countries attached great importance and a particular aspect of the study and evaluation of the introduction to the financial market.

Through this paper, we will try to shed light on determining the risk of this type of investment and its importance at the level of the market, with the presentation of the most basic types of them, to turn in the axis of a second to examine the reality and the prospects for financial derivatives in some Arab markets, and some of the measures taken in this context.