- Industria: Financial services
- Number of terms: 25840
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UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
Special savings product for the medium-term investment of savings at a relatively high interest rate and normally with limited withdrawal conditions. Cash machine and cheque withdrawals are generally not possible.
Industry:Banking
Period during which no brokers can issue research reports on the proposed listing enterprise.
Industry:Banking
An account held jointly at a bank by two or more people each of whom has sole power of disposal over the assets in the joint safekeeping account without the signature of the other.
Industry:Banking
Consolidated balance sheet of a group of companies, showing combined results with the exception of inter-company participations, supplies, receivables and debts, shipments and services (i.e. purchases and sales) and similar items. A group income statement is prepared together with the consolidated balance sheet. Regulated by Art. 663e ff. of the Swiss Code of Obligations.
Industry:Banking
Option with a fixed exchange rate between two currencies at the beginning of the maturity. When the option is exercised, the premium is paid out in the foreign currency. Quantos exist solely as a component of another option. They allow investors to speculate in underlyings denominated in a foreign currency and eliminate the foreign currency risk that would otherwise exist.
Industry:Banking
Borrowing in order to bridge temporary liquidity shortages at month-end. This kind of financing furnished by the Swiss National Bank to commercial banks helps to avoid extreme interest-rate fluctuations.
Industry:Banking
The person who transfers title or interest to a third party. See also assignment.
Industry:Banking
(1) Also: custody account. Total of all securities and valuables deposited with a bank. See also sealed safekeeping account, open safekeeping account, numbered safekeeping account.
(2) Also: securities safekeeping account. Custody account for the safekeeping and administration of securities.
Industry:Banking
Also: structured finance. A field of corporate finance, financial engineering refers to the application of various mathematical, statistical and computational techniques to solve practical problems in finance. Such problems include the valuation of derivatives instruments such as options, futures and swaps, the trading of securities, risk management and regulation of financial markets. In a broader sense the term generally means qualified financial consulting services (e.g. solving capital and asset management problems, selecting financing strategies and instruments, drawing up financial and cash plans, assessing and evaluating investment projects).
Industry:Banking
UK synonym for leverage. Indicates how much more an options investment can earn than an equity investment with the same initial capital outlay. The higher the gearing, the more volatile the option.
Industry:Banking
