- Industria: Financial services
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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.
Bank deposit from clients or other banks fixed for a term of 90 days. See also time deposit.
Industry:Banking
Organization with substantial (mostly continuous) investment needs which trade large volumes of securities, e.g. insurance companies, pension funds, investment funds, etc.
Industry:Banking
Also: option contract. Agreement reached with a contractual partner that confers the right to buy (call option) or sell (put option) a predetermined quantity of a good or security at a predetermined price on (European option) or by (American option) a predetermined date. Options are traded on futures or options exchanges. See also futures market, options exchange, option trading.
Industry:Banking
(USA) Term used for securities not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission which therefore have limited transferability.
Industry:Banking
A conditional sell order to be executed immediately once a given price level is reached. If the trigger limit is reached, the order is converted into a market order and executed at the next best price.
Industry:Banking
Transfer of assets to secure payment of an obligation, but generally without transfer of title or ownership, on the basis of a pledge agreement. In the event of default, the creditor can realize the pledged assets and satisfy his claims from the proceeds (execution). In the banking business, pledging securities is the most common credit collateralizing transaction, especially in the case of current account credits and loans. See also Lombard loan, collateral loan.
Industry:Banking
Public register in which all rights to real estate properties are entered. Under Swiss law, the Land Register consists of the main ledger (one page for each property), supporting documents and a chronological register for entries, building lot plans and property descriptions. The Land Register is kept by the Land Register Office under the supervision of the cantons.
Industry:Banking
Official name of the Swiss bourse. Abbreviation: SWX. SWX was created in 1995 with the merger of the exchanges in Geneva, Basel and Zurich. Since 1996, all securities on the Swiss Exchange have been traded electronically, and floor trading thus abolished. SWX is supervised by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (SFBC). See also virt-x. Website: www.swx.com.
Industry:Banking
