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 ...

Japan’s cabinet approved a bill classifying crypto as a financial instrument. The new law adds bans on insider trading, mandatory disclosures, and higher penalties. This shift boosts legitimacy and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) has been adopted by Deutsche Bank to identify syndicated loans that sit in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and other credit based structures.

The Japan Financial Services Agency has proposed a hard law amendment that will provide an additional environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information source ...

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 ...