The article reveals the deep economic meaning of information asym- metry in the finances and financial infrastructure of Ukraine. Financial infrastruc- ture ensures the movement of monetary capital, business activities of industries and the economy as a whole and affects other spheres of social life. The economic essence of the informational function of finance is revealed through the mechanism of finan- cial relations, which is a generator of information directly related to monetary capi- tal. Financial information is divided into primary and secondary: primary infor- mation is an objective element of financial relations, and the human mind and the used technical means perceive and process it and form secondary information. Sec- ondary information appears to us as processed materials in the form of statistical data; accounting, management, financial reports; analytical materials. The charac- teristics of primary and secondary information are related to the information asym- metry of finance. With the development of the information society, the financial infra- structure of the economy is being improved, and the asymmetry between primary and secondary financial information is decreasing.
