Basically as follows.
1. Derivatives of equity products. Refers to financial derivatives based on stocks or stock indexes, mainly including stock futures, stock options, stock index futures, stock index options and mixed trading contracts of the above contracts.
2. Currency derivatives. Refers to financial derivatives based on various currencies, mainly including forward foreign exchange contracts, currency futures, currency options, currency swaps and mixed trading contracts of the above contracts.
3. Interest rate derivatives. Refers to financial derivatives based on interest rates or interest rate carriers, mainly including forward interest rate agreements, interest rate futures, interest rate options, interest rate swaps and mixed trading contracts of the above contracts.
4. Credit derivatives. It is a financial derivative product that takes the credit risk or default risk contained in the basic product as the basic variable and is used to transfer or prevent credit risk. It is the fastest-growing derivative product since 1990s, mainly including credit swap and credit-linked bills.
5. Other derivatives. In addition to the above four types of financial derivatives, a considerable number of financial derivatives are developed on the basis of non-financial variables, such as weather futures to manage the risk of temperature change, political futures to manage political risks, catastrophe derivatives to manage catastrophe risks and so on.