Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

When two or more people strike a bargain, and each party to the agreement promises to give something up in order to get something else in return, those individuals have created what is known as a ...

A contract is an agreement between two parties that creates an obligation to perform (or not perform) a particular duty. A legally enforceable contract requires the following elements, all of which ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Linklaters has signed up to a new initiative aiming bring together a consortium of legal and technology partners to help promote open standards around smart contracts. Richard Hay, the UK head of ...

"Every contract is an agreement, but It's not every agreement that qualifies to be called a contract". During my first day in the Law of Contract Class, the caption of this article was given to us as ...

Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code's "safe harbor" preventing avoidance in bankruptcy of certain securities, commodity, or forward-contract payments has long been a magnet for controversy. Several ...

Construction workers tend to work based on contractors they make with the owners of property. Traditionally these contractors could choose from a variety of accounting procedures to account for the ...

Foreign currency contracts subject to the Sec. 1256 mark-to-market rules would be defined as only including forward contracts, under proposed regulations the IRS and Treasury issued Tuesday ...