- Industria: Financial services
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- Company Profile:
UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
Written undertaking, for example on competition between banks or the repayment of savings deposits or account balances in the event of involuntary liquidation of a bank.
Industry:Banking
Medium- to long-term debt instruments issued by the US Treasury in the form of a bond, with maturities mostly longer than 10 years. See also treasury bill.
Industry:Banking
Abbr.: ECU. Former currency unit equal to the sum of the values of the currencies of the previous 12 EU member states whose currencies made up the ECU currency basket: the value of an ECU was calculated as a weighted average of these currencies. The ECU was abandoned upon introduction of the euro on 1 January 1999. The euro replaced the ECU on the basis of 1 ECU = 1 euro.
Industry:Banking
Additional form of remuneration in lending business, in addition to interest payments, charged for particular services or as a risk premium.
Industry:Banking
Short- and medium-term debt certificates issued in bill or note form by a government. In Switzerland, the Federal Government issues Treasury notes with maturities of 1 to 2 years, occasionally also bills with shorter maturities (3 months). Other short- and medium-term debt instruments issued by the Confederation, the cantons and the municipalities are now usually called rescriptions. Treasury notes can be discounted at the Swiss National Bank if their remaining term to maturity is less than 3 months. In the USA, a distinction is made between treasury bills (short-term, 3-12 months) and treasury notes (medium-term, 1-5 years).
Industry:Banking
Long-term bond issued under IMF debt rescheduling programmes which is backed by a zero-coupon bond issued by the US Treasury. See also treasury bond.
Industry:Banking
Also: credit rating; credit quality; credit capacity. Totality of characteristics which make an individual or a corporate entity trustworthy enough to receive a loan.
Industry:Banking
British gold coin containing one ounce of gold with a nominal value of £100. Britannia coins of 1/2, 1/4 and 1/10 of an ounce of gold are also minted.
Industry:Banking
South African gold coin, containing exactly one ounce or 31.1035 grams of pure gold. Small Krugerrand coins have fine weights of 1/2, 1/4 and 1/10 of an ounce.
Industry:Banking
