Learn what financial instruments are, explore major types and asset classes, and understand how they work in investing, trading, and portfolio construction.

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 ...

Based on Bloomberg's Open Symbology, FIGI is a free and open data standard and unique identifier of financial instruments that can be used across all global asset classes, including syndicated loans, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gargantuan database of billions of financial instruments is being proposed by a Federal Reserve staffer to help regulators prevent risky behavior that could threaten the entire ...