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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 ...

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 ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

The appointment comes as the CFTC faces growing oversight demands across derivatives, digital assets, and emerging financial instruments, alongside closer ...

Hedge documentation is important in both financial reporting and income taxation.For financial accounting purposes, on the date of the hedge, an entity must identify the hedged item, the instrument ...

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 ...

Derivatives, a special kind of investment, played a key role in the financial crisis and generated $20 billion for Wall Street last year. They are also central in President Obama's push for financial ...

If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer? But the truth ...

The Markets in Financial Instruments (Equivalence) (Singapore) Regulations 2024 have been published, together with an explanatory memorandum and de minimis assessment. The Regulations set out HM ...

Spencer Bachus, the Alabama Republican expected to become the next chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, says he wants to tinker with the derivatives regulation required by the ...

FASB issued clarifications and minor improvements Thursday to its recently issued accounting standards for credit losses, hedging, and recognition and measurement. The numerous amendments are included ...