Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Defined broadly, hypothecation refers to the practice of pledging an asset as collateral for a loan while still retaining ownership, as is commonly done to obtain a mortgage on a house. Here is an ...

With each failure of a financial institution, a new term seems to find its way out of thousand page long regulations and onto the front pages. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, re-hypothecation was ...

If ever there was a word that you’d expect to find in a Harry Potter novel, it’s re-hypothecation. This a classic example of financial people inventing impenetrable terminology to make their business ...

Andy Thompson (“Why hypothecating tax revenues for the NHS made no sense”, Letters, January 16) seems to suggest that hypothecating a tax levy for a particular purpose is a “fraud” if total ...

The Daily Mail City team explain what tax hypothecation is and why pop band Girls Aloud are on board. Zzzzz.... Wake up, it's actually mildly interesting. Tax hypothecation is the somewhat convoluted ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who ...

Hypothecation means offering an asset as collateral, or as backing for a loan.If you default on the loan, the lender can take the asset to recoup their money. Common uses for hypothecation include ...

Anyone who has taken out an auto loan or mortgage has likely entered into a hypothecation agreement to secure the loan. Hypothecation is common with secured loans. In the case of getting a mortgage on ...