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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Binary options are nowadays widely recognized as one of the most accessible ways of getting introduced to financial markets. The pace of penetration in the retail segment has been truly overwhelming ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Improvements in computing capabilities have made it possible to bring sophisticated computer-based trading simulations into the classroom. Two related questions are addressed in this educational ...

There is more to cryptocurrencies than just being money, or currency, and there are very good reasons for them to fall under a tax regulation in the traditional sense. Bitcoin and the like can also be ...

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 ...

Malta’s financial regulator has released a paper on the previously proposed Financial Instrument Test, a way of determining legal classifications for virtual tokens. The Malta Financial Services ...