The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Pub.L. 111-203, H.R. 4173) is a federal statute in the United States that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010. The Act implements financial regulatory reform sponsored by the Democratically controlled 111th United States Congress and the Obama administration. Passed as a response to the late-2000s recession, the Act brought the most significant changes to financial regulation in the United States since the regulatory reform that followed the Great Depression, representing a significant change in the American financial regulatory environment affecting all Federal financial regulatory agencies and almost every aspect of the nation’s financial services industry. As with other major financial reforms, some legal and financial scholars on both sides of the political spectrum have criticized the law, arguing on the one hand that the reforms were insufficient to prevent another financial crisis or additional “bail outs” of financial institutions, and on the other hand that the reforms went too far and would unduly restrict the ability of banks and other financial institutions to make loans.

El riesgo de contraparte ha emergido, considerando la implicación de los derivados en la crisis financiera de 2008, como la piedra angular detrás del marco regulatorio sobre el que reconfigurará el entorno financiero internacional. En tal contexto, los bancos y grandes instituciones financieras han otorgado un papel fundamental no solo al fortalecimiento del control del riesgo de contraparte dentro de sus marcos de administración integral de riesgo, sino también a la valuación y cobertura de este riesgo.

A pesar de los escándalos Financieros Globales y los quebrantos corporativos a los que recientemente hemos sido testigos por el mal uso de los Productos Derivados, éstos han probado ser una herramienta de gran utilidad para protegerse de la fluctuación de las variables económicas, instrumentos que las entidades usan para mitigar los riesgos a las que se encuentran expuestas.