Personal Finance

It’s an annual rite for many families—the summer road trip. Travel experts offer road-trip survival tips, from tuning up the car to keeping your cell phone charged. Good preparation is also essential to a successful financial road trip. For this journey, one of the best places to begin is with an emergency fund.

It may not be possible to predict when the next hurricane or other natural disaster will take place, but one thing you can count on is that, when it happens, scammers will try to take advantage of the situation.

Some issuers have been offering a new type of security as part of some crowdfunding offerings—which they have called a SAFE. The acronym stands for Simple Agreement for Future Equity. SAFE accounts come with risks, and are very different from traditional common stock.

This year, you may have a few more reasons to celebrate Mom. The impact of women’s earnings, and the financial contributions they make to their families, continues to grow. Here are five ways women can take charge of their financial futures.

Automatic features make saving simple, but auto-saving isn’t the same as putting things on autopilot. These tips will help you make the most of your company’s automatic retirement savings features.

FINRA has received numerous calls recently from individuals who have received unexpected checks, some from organizations whose names are household words. To those callers, we offer a concise response: Don’t cash the check, it’s almost certainly counterfeit.

Retirement savers, are you making the most of your company's 401(k) match? Even though a quarter of the year has gone by, you can take steps to make the most of your company's 401(k) match. Each year, Americans leave billions of dollars in 401(k) company matches on the table. Here's how to avoid becoming one of the estimated one-of-four employees who misses out on free money.

To help finance its operations, the U.S. government borrows money by selling investors a variety of debt securities known collectively as Treasury securities, or simply, Treasuries. These securities have a special place in the investment world, since they are the benchmark by which most other debt securities are measured.

Sadly, most of us know someone who has been a victim of a crime, or we may have been ourselves a target. During this year's annual observances of National Crime Victims' Rights Week (April 2-8), FINRA is sharing some steps you can take to help recover from the emotional and financial aftershocks of investment fraud if you or someone you know lost money in a scam.

T+2 isn’t a sci-fi thriller, but it does look to the future. T+2 refers to a new, and shorter, standard settlement cycle for securities transactions. Currently, most securities transactions are settled in three business days, commonly referred to as T+3. Broker-dealers are required to comply with the amended rule beginning September 5, 2017.