Derivative Exchange and its purpose

So in a conversation with my boss (representative of my employer – a bank) discussing rules for External Directorships (or founders) of companies (like Massive Rainfall), I had to describe what I was doing and a justification. I came up with:

  1. Hedging of a bad Weather day ruining some important event (like a wedding)
  2. Hedging Bitcoin prices (like those who are unable to cash out on Mt.Gov)
  3. Speculating with a hope to profit on either of the above

Most of the other reasons are not customer focused. They’re for me (become more effective in Product Development, practice following E2E – a modified Rational Unified Process [RUP] for software development) etc.