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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

Alan Greenspan's address to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Forty-first Annual Conference on Bank Structure in Chicago, Illinois, www.federalreserve.gov. May 5, 2005.
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial