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 ...

Crypto aside, stocks, bonds, real estate, and any other type of financial instrument you can think of will eventually be on the blockchain. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The draft Markets in Financial Instruments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 has been laid before the UK Parliament under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (FSMA 2023), together ...

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, ...

“An annuity is one form of financial instrument. A typical annuity is used to pay a certain sum of money at specified intervals, with the payment amount being based on a given amount of principal.

OptionMetrics has adopted the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) for options data products in the US, Europe, Asia, and Canada. The identifiers provide global coverage of financial markets, ...