BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Financial Instrument
- any contract that gives rise to both a financial asset of one entity and a financial liability or equity instrument of another entity. Financial instruments include both primary financial instruments, such as bonds, currency, and stocks, and derivative financial instruments, whose value derives from the underlying assets.
Additional Resources
- Credit Derivatives Financial Instrument
- A credit derivative is a financial instrument used to mitigate or to assume specific forms of credit risk by hedgers and speculators. These new products are particularly useful for institutions with widespread credit exposures. According to the report it suggests that credit derivatives may herald a new form of international...
- White papers
- Biotech Company Unveils New Financial Instrument Endorsing Investors' Desires for Fighting Disease
- ALACHUA, Fla.--BW HealthWire--March 26, 1998-- Ixion Biotechnology, Inc. also breaks ground as first fully registered biotech company to launch Internet public offering Today, Ixion Biotechnology announced that it believes that it is the first biotech company to...
- Research articles 1998-03-26
- The many faces of financial instruments. (includes related article) (Corporate Reporting)
- The Financial Accounting Standards Board has embarked on an ambitious financial instruments project. The main goal of the project is to develop standards that would address accounting problems arising from financial instruments, financial transactions, and financial instrument accounting guidelines and practices. Started in the latter part of the 1980s, the...
- Research articles 1992-09-01
- Mantas Addresses New Regulations with Advances in Compliance, Fraud and Financial Instrument Coverage
- NEW YORK -- Mantas, the leading provider of enterprise-wide compliance solutions to the financial services industry, today introduced Mantas 4.2TM. The newest version of the Mantas products reflect greater protection for current and emerging regulatory requirements, increased fraud detection capabilities and increased support of financial instruments. Financial institutions face an...
- Research articles 2005-12-15
- Using value-at-risk to measure financial risk
- I. INTRODUCTIONOver the past several decades portfolio and risk management techniques have adapted to increasingly complex financial instruments and risk scenarios. The rapid growth in derivative financial instruments and the derivatives losses reported in recent years have intensified concerns over reliably measuring financial instrument risk exposure. The massive derivative losses...
- Research articles 1996-01-01
- Statement by Herbert A. Biern, Deputy Associate Director, Division of Banking, Supervision and Regulation, before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, July 17, 1996 - prime bank financial instrument fraud - Statements to the
- Statement by Herbert A. Biern, Deputy Associate Director, Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, US Senate, July 17, 1996 I am pleased to appear before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to discuss actions that the Federal Reserve has...
- Research articles 1996-09-01
- Financial Stocks Will Go Down Until There Is a Clearing House for Derivatives
- Credit Default Swaps (CDS) are going to wipe out most companies that wrote them due to the cascading effects of a default. Any hedge fund, company or bank that has CDS exposure will not be a good speculative investment at any price until there is a clearing house on...
- External links 2009-01-28
- Viking Energy Royalty Trust Announces 2003 Financial Results (Part Two of Three).
- CALGARY, ALBERTA, Mar 24, 2004 CCNMatthews via COMTEX LIQUIDITY Contractual Obligations As part of normal operations, Viking is a party to various financial guarantees, letters of credit and other contractual commitments. In addition, as discussed in the risk management...
- Research articles 2004-03-24
- Directives might touch futures. (effect of European Community financial services directives on commodity futures industry) (Brief Article)
- As European Community financial services directives near approval, alarms are going off for commodity futures industry officials. Concern has mounted since European Community EC finance ministers reached tentative agreement on the Capital Adequacy Directive CAD for securities and brokerage firms. Final CAD approval...
- Research articles 1992-07-01
- Enterra Energy Trust Announces Financial Exposure to SemGroup Bankruptcy Filing
- Enterra Energy Trust ("Enterra" or the "Trust") has a potential financial exposure of up to $10 million primarily from oil and gas sales to subsidiaries of SemGroup L.P. ("SemGroup") in Canada and the U.S. during the months of June and July 2008. A financial instrument held in Canada with SemGroup...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- Too Good to be True: Financial Instrument aka Prime Bank Note Fraud
- The most prevalent fraud from the mid nineties to today has been the offering of credit notes allegedly issued by major banks. This type of fraud is now hitting the Internet. The relevant "Financial Instruments" are referred to as prime bank notes or standby letters of credit. This white paper...
- White papers
- RIL holding in Infocomm can exceed 45%, if it converts preference shares to equity.(Financial News)(Reliance Industries Ltd.)(Reliance Infocomm)(Brief Article)
- Reliance Industries Ltd. RIL, the parent company of Reliance Infocomm, has said that if and when it decides to convert its preference shares to equity, it's holding in RIC can exceed 45%. In order to defend its investments in Reliance Infocomm through the preference share route,...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- RIL holding in Infocomm can exceed 45%, if it converts preference shares to equity.(Financial News)(Reliance Industries Ltd.)(Reliance Infocomm)(Brief Article)
- Reliance Industries Ltd. RIL, the parent company of Reliance Infocomm, has said that if and when it decides to convert its preference shares to equity, it's holding in RIC can exceed 45%. In order to defend its investments in Reliance Infocomm through the preference share route,...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- National Penn Bancshares, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionMichelle Debkowski Thank you, Glenn. We have several questions presented during the webcast. And Mike, I'll begin with you, with a few questions related to the synthetic CDO. Why did the bank buy the $12 million synthetic collateralized debt obligations that had to be written off? Who...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-27
- A Web-Based Instrument To Measure The Value Of Using e-Learning
- Many managers of institutions of higher education have to make decisions about investing resources in e-learning. A project group has developed a Web-based instrument that has been evaluated in a series of pilot studies and consequently adapted. The major idea behind the instrument is the assumption that decisions are based...
- White papers 2005-04-03
- Tortoise or Hare
- When it comes to which business model—a corporate owned advisory firm or a partnership—is most appealing to investors and which to advisors, it's clear that most advisors would prefer to build a lasting, renewable, and stable business that grows slowly and steadily and produces income over time. With this in...
- News items 2009-08-29
- Mag Instrument Renews Partnership with Red Cross; Sponsor Commits $500,000 to Support Red Cross 'Together We Prepare' Initiative
- WASHINGTON, July 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Red Cross (http://www.redcross.org) is pleased to announce that Mag Instrument has renewed its partnership with the organization, providing continued financial support and public outreach for its life-savWASHINGTON, July 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Red Cross (http://www.redcross.org) is pleased to announce that...
- Research articles 2004-07-06
- GI eyes telco money, lower debt in spinoffs. (General Instrument Corp.)
- General Instrument Corp.'s plan to splinter into three parts is driven by lofty ambitions to reach beyond its dependence on cable into supplying the telephone industry, but it is also fueled by more mundane financial goals. General Instrument Corp.'s plan to splinter into three...
- Research articles 1997-01-13
- FASB Offers Its Preliminary Views on Fair Value.(Brief Article)
- The Financial Accounting Standards Board recently published its preliminary views on measuring financial instruments at fair value. The document is the next step in a wide-ranging Board project related to financial instrument issues. Comments on th The Financial Accounting Standards Board recently published its...
- Research articles 2000-03-01
- Hyduke Energy Services Inc., Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited) Six month period ended October 31, 2004.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-31 December 2004-Hyduke Energy Services Inc.: Hyduke Energy Services Inc., Consolidated Financial Statements unaudited Six month period ended October 31, 2004C1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12302004 Edmonton, Alberta CANADA /FSC/ - Hyduke Energy Services Inc. (HYD - TSX Venture), National Instrument...
- Research articles 2004-12-31
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