The notoriously difficult Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program exams are about to get that much tougher. Dubbed "the most brutal exam in the world of finance" by Business Insider, the three-part test covering several different areas of finance – all with a heavy focus on ethics – is about to add topics on cryptocurrencies and blockchain as examinable material in August 2019. According to Bloomberg, Stephen Horan, the managing director for general education and curriculum for the CFA Institute overseeing CFA exams, said on the matter: "We saw the field [of crypto] advancing more quickly than other fields and we ... (full story)