Banks and other lenders like to get paid, and one of the best ways they have to ensure that they get paid is requiring collateral to secure payment of money a business borrows. Small-business owners ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 years. She is an adjunct ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Lu ShaoJi / GettyImages Collateralization is the use of a valuable asset as collateral to ...

Over the last couple of weeks, the concept of “contango” — the situation where a futures price of a commodity is higher than the spot price, made popular among Bitcoiners by Preston Pysh and Plan B — ...

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Stablecoins have been making the headlines in recent months, attracting big investors, tempted by the allure of a on ‘non-volatile’ cryptocurrency. At first, we usually pay attention to the backing ...