China's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), confirmed last month that Beijing was setting up a new "policy-based financial instrument" worth 500 billion yuan ...

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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 ...

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 ...

One should properly diversify the portfolio, but over or under-diversification will not work. Reasonable diversification is important, says Mukesh Kochar, National Head of Wealth, AUM Capital. In an ...

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 ...

What is a hedging instrument? A hedging instrument is any financial product that will enable traders to reduce or limit the risk in an underlying asset class, such as cash, shares, commodities, ...

Valoren numbers are Swiss financial identifiers, similar to CUSIPs in the U.S. and Canada, used to uniquely mark financial instruments without embedded data.

There is more to cryptocurrencies than just being money, or currency, and there are very good reasons for them to fall under a tax regulation in the traditional sense. Bitcoin and the like can also be ...

Malta’s financial regulator has released a paper on the previously proposed Financial Instrument Test, a way of determining legal classifications for virtual tokens. The Malta Financial Services ...

The expansion of FIGI to the United States advances global market efficiency, accuracy and interconnectivity Today, Bloomberg and Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9) announced the publication ...