Foreign exchange (forex) trading is easier to grasp once you understand the basic concepts. This comprehensive guide will focus on financial instruments that can deepen your understanding of forex ...

Financial derivatives have greatly enhanced the range of tools available for managing financial risks. Currently, derivatives are widely used to mitigate and reallocate the financial risk related to ...

Discover different financial analyst roles, including buy-side, sell-side, and other key positions important for investment ...

FASB issued a new standard Tuesday designed to improve the recognition and measurement of financial instruments through targeted changes to existing GAAP. Public and private companies, not-for-profits ...

It has been nearly four years since FASB began issuing its revised financial instruments guidance (see the sidebar, “Topic 326 Changes”). The guidance impacts all industries, not just financial ...

Valoren numbers are Swiss financial identifiers, similar to CUSIPs in the U.S. and Canada, used to uniquely mark financial instruments without embedded data.

The American Institute of CPAs launched a new credential and accompanying performance framework Monday that will address the "consistency, clarity and transparency of the valuation of financial ...

The Office of Financial Research (OFR) has added a third data source, the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol, to its Financial Instrument Reference Database (FIRD), to allow users to ...

The Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) has been adopted by Deutsche Bank to identify syndicated loans that sit in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and other credit based structures.

Virtus Partners announced today it has adopted the Financial Instrument Global Identifier, or FIGI, to identify syndicated loans that sit in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and other credit ...

MiCar: Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. Everyone seems to forget that blockchain is a database software at its core; better database software to be sure because it makes digitally unique items ...

China's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), confirmed last month that Beijing was setting up a new "policy-based financial instrument" worth 500 billion yuan ...