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 ...

Bloomberg and Kaiko are pleased to announce the issuance of the first series of Financial Instrument Global Identifiers covering crypto assets. The Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) is an ...

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 ...

MiCA passed in 2022, but aspects of it are still being worked out. Defining a financial instrument is a big outstanding question. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) released two ...

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board is circulating some proposed revisions to its financial instruments standard for government entities to harmonize it with the International ...

Norwalk, Conn. - Financial reporting authority Leslie F. Seidman, CPA, has been named to replace John K. Wulff on the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Having literally written the book on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 literacy refers to the understanding and capability to make informed and efficient decisions about personal financial resources. It encompasses the knowledge of how money works in the world: ...