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Financial Stability Board

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is an international body created by the G20 in 2009 after the global financial crisis to coordinate financial regulatory standards.

Financial Stability Oversight Council

The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) is a council of US financial regulators, chaired by the Treasury Secretary, that identifies threats to financial stability and can designate nonbank firms.

Financial statement

A financial statement, also known as a financial report, is a structured presentation of an entity's financial position, performance, and cash flows, prepared to help users make economic decisions.

Financial statement analysis

Financial statement analysis, also called analysis of financial statements, examines a company's income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement using ratio, common-size, and trend analysis to support decisions like lending or investing.

Financial Support

Financial support is the provision of monetary resources, including money, capital, and credit, for a purchase or enterprise, delivered by governments, foundations, and companies through grants, loans, guarantees, subsidies, insurance, and in-kind transfers.

Financial system

A financial system is the set of institutions, markets, and infrastructure that mobilizes funds for investment, settles payments, and transfers risk, spanning banks, markets, and non-bank intermediaries.

Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT), also called The FT, is a British business newspaper founded in 1888, printed on distinctive salmon-pink paper since 1893 and owned since 2015 by Japan's Nikkei.

Financial transaction

A financial transaction is an interaction between institutional units, by mutual agreement, that creates, liquidates, or transfers a financial asset, spanning payment rails, clearing, settlement, finality, and costs.

Financial transaction tax

A financial transaction tax (FTT) is a small levy charged each time a financial instrument like a share or derivative changes hands, levied in more than thirty countries.

Financialization

Financialization is the growing role of financial motives, markets, actors, and institutions in the economy, dated from roughly 1980, with rising household debt and shareholder payouts.

Financière Agache

Financière Agache is a French holding company controlled by Agache, the Arnault family holding, which holds controlling stakes in Christian Dior and LVMH alongside diversified financial investments.

FINANZCHECK.de

FINANZCHECK.de is a Hamburg-based German fintech comparison platform for consumer and installment loans, founded by Moritz Thiele and Andreas Kupke and sold to Scout24 for €285 million in 2018.

Finasteride

Finasteride (Propecia, Proscar) is a type II 5α-reductase inhibitor lowering DHT ~70%; used at 5 mg for BPH and 1 mg for male pattern hair loss, with PSA-lowering, sexual and psychiatric side-effect debates.

Fīnau ʻUlukālala

Fīnau ʻUlukālala is the name of a line of Tongan high chiefs of the late 1700s and early 1800s, most prominently Fīnau ʻUlukālala II, who ruled most of Tonga.

Finavia

Finavia is the Finnish state-owned airport company that owns, develops, and maintains most of Finland's airports, including Helsinki Airport; it was formed as a government-owned corporation in 2010.

FinBERT

FinBERT is a BERT-based language model family adapted to finance, used chiefly for sentiment analysis of financial text, first released by Dogu Araci in 2019.

FINBOURNE Technology

FINBOURNE Technology is a London-based fintech company founded in 2016, best known for LUSID, its cloud-native investment data management platform for asset managers, owners, and servicers.

Finca

Finca (board game) by Ralf zur Linde and Wolfgang Sentker, Hans im Glück 2009; Mallorca fruit-farming mancala/rondel euro, Spiel des Jahres 2009 nominee, Deutscher Spiele Preis 4th place, reprinted 2018, 2024, and 2025.

Fincantieri

Fincantieri S.p.A. is an Italian shipbuilding group headquartered in Trieste, founded in 1959, which builds most of the world's cruise ships and over 140 naval vessels since 1990.

Finch

Finch: true finches are seed-eating passerine birds of Fringillidae with conical bills, found worldwide except Australia. Darwin's finches and zebra finches are not finches but tanagers and waxbills; HMGA2 links to Galápagos beak evolution.

Finch (film)

Finch (2021), originally titled Bios, is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama on Apple TV+ directed by Miguel Sapochnik, starring Tom Hanks as a dying robotics engineer who builds a robot (Caleb Landry Jones) to care for his dog Goodyear; 74% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Finch Capital

Finch Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and headquartered in Amsterdam, investing in European B2B financial technology companies at Series A and B stage.

Fincha Habera rock shelter

Fincha Habera rock shelter is a Middle Stone Age rock shelter at 3,469 m in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, where foragers lived between 47,000 and 31,000 years ago, eating giant mole-rats.

Finchingfield

Finchingfield, Essex village (Domesday Fincingefelda, 1086): historic green, duck pond, Grade I Guildhall of 1470, 51-listed-building conservation area (1969), Roman villa sites, and a 2022-excavated medieval tile kiln.

FinCo Services, Inc.

FinCo Services, Inc., doing business as Current, is a New York fintech company founded in 2015 by Stuart Sopp offering digital banking through a mobile app.

Find a Grave

Find a Grave is a free, volunteer-built online burial database founded by Jim Tipton in 1995 and owned by Ancestry since 2013, with over 265 million graves in half a million cemeteries, memorials, photo requests, and GPS-enabled mobile apps.

Find Me (novel)

Find Me (2019), André Aciman's fifth novel, continues Call Me by Your Name through Elio's father Samuel, Elio in Paris, and Oliver in New England, ending with the lovers' reunion coda.

Find Me Falling

Find Me Falling (Μπρος Γκρεμός), 2024 Netflix romantic comedy directed by Stelana Kliris, starring Harry Connick Jr. as a rock star on Cyprus; first Cypriot Netflix film, 14.4M debut-week views.

Find Me Guilty

Find Me Guilty (2006) is Sidney Lumet's courtroom comedy-drama starring Vin Diesel as mobster Jackie DiNorscio, who defended himself in the 21-month Lucchese family trial, the longest in U.S. history.

Find Me in Paris

Find Me in Paris (Léna rêve d'étoile) is a German-French tween live-action series (2018–2020, 78 episodes, Cottonwood Media/ZDF) about Lena Grisky, a Russian princess ballet student who time travels from 1905 to modern Paris, later rebooted as Spellbound.