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 ...

Many believe the 2008 financial crisis was the defining moment of the United States’ political economy in the twenty-first century. When the markets crashed, the country overwhelmingly voted out the ...

Laurie Sepulveda is a MarketWatch Guides team senior writer who specializes in writing about insurance, investing, personal loans, home equity loans, mortgages and banking. She lives in North Carolina ...

Support for innovative financial tools could generate up to $70 billion over 10 years WASHINGTON, April 19, 2024— New financial instruments designed to boost lending capacity and enable the World Bank ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cyprus household financial assets rose to €63 billion at the end of September 2025, with more than half held in liquid and ...