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 instruments are becoming increasingly complicated, and a new survey of CPA financial executives by the AICPA found concern about the valuation of instruments such as derivatives, with fears ...

Esoteric debt involves complex financial instruments that are not widely understood but can have significant impacts on financial markets. Learn how they work and their risks.

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 ...

FASB proposed a standard Tuesday that would clarify the interaction between its standard on recognition and measurement of financial instruments and its standard on equity method investments. In 2016, ...

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 ...

In the financial world, securities are financial instruments that represent ownership of a specific asset or claim on an underlying asset. In the past, most securities were issued as "bearer ...

Volatility is a statistical measure of the degree of variation in the price of a financial instrument over time. While volatility of a financial instrument is often seen as a risk, it can also present ...

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 ...

SIX is pleased to launch the Independent Valuation Service for financial instruments, which was co-created with Avaloq based on a strategic partnership. The initiative addresses international ...

Investigate the impact of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) on the financial crisis, their structure, and how they influenced widespread economic instability.