Washington (March 15, 2004) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a Staff Accounting Bulletin to provide guidance on banks' extending mortgage loans with an intention to sell the loan ...

A FASB proposal issued Tuesday is designed to provide more useful information to financial statement users about hybrid financial instruments that contain bifurcated embedded derivatives. The ...

FASB issued financial reporting standards that address recognition of breakage for prepaid stored-value products and the effects of derivative contract novations on existing hedge accounting ...

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced that the regulatory authorities of each jurisdiction in Canada, except for British Columbia, have adopted Multilateral Instrument 93-101, ...

Alternative funds can be imposing to some investors. These funds might employ complex investment strategies and sometimes the financial instruments they hold can be tough to decipher. That’s ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. In survey after survey, capital market participants complain about regulatory overload and complexity. The last ...

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 ...

Sebi has clarified that FPIs not not prohibited from issuing ODIs like P-notes, but they have only been barred from issuing ODIs with derivative instruments as underlying. Market regulator Sebi has ...

Three of the six largest bankruptcies in American history -- WorldCom, Enron, and Global Crossing -- occurred between December 2001 and July 2002, shattering investor confidence and helping to knock ...