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

Why were derivatives difficult to build in DeFi? Learn how scalability, liquidity fragmentation, and oracle risks ...

Some things have changed radically over the last decade, however, the most important being the structure of financial markets. The Great Financial Crisis was arguably caused by the digitalization of ...

Persuaded that lax regulation of financial derivatives contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers in Congress and the Obama Administration have adopted a knee-jerk solution: regulate ...

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 ...

Eighteen months after the financial crisis, Senator Chris Dodd (D–CT) and the Obama Administration are suddenly in a hurry to pass financial reform legislation, including blanket regulation of ...

Fund managers are moving to get independent values on over-the-counter derivatives, rather than relying on their broker-dealers. Just in the nick of time. "The financial crisis showed the fallacies of ...

Some of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's conclusions are on the right track; others aren't too far off; but some are simply wrong. Just reading the summary, one clearly misguided claim ...

Partners with Derivative Path to bolster its hedging program, will use its cloud-based OTC trading platform to manage trade execution, sales, operations and Dodd-Frank compliance of its interest rate ...

A financial statement expresses the value of an enterprise by listing and evaluating its parts. In the process, the statement sets forth as accurately as possible each asset and liability. Determining ...