- Industria: Financial services
- Number of terms: 25840
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
Also: intangibles. Identifiable non-monetary asset without physical substance held for use in the production or supply of goods or services, for rental to others, or for administrative purposes. Examples include rights, patents, licences, brands, goodwill and client relationships.
Industry:Banking
Also: inverse interest rate structure. Situation in which interest rates and yields for longer durations are lower than for shorter duration Normally, the interest rate or yield increases as the investment period increases.
Industry:Banking
Also: key interest rate, base rate (GB), prime rate (USA). The interest rate set by a central bank for central bank funds.
Industry:Banking
An investment firm making markets outside a regulated market or an MTF. MiFID Level 2 measures will establish criteria for determining when an investment firm is a systematic internalizer.
Industry:Banking
Any of the services and activities listed in MiFID Annex I Section A relating to any financial instrument, namely: reception and transmission of orders in relation to one or more financial instruments; execution of orders on behalf of clients; dealing on own account; portfolio management; investment advice; underwriting of financial instruments and/or placing of financial instruments on a firm commitment basis; placing of financial instruments without a firm commitment basis; operation of MTFs.
Industry:Banking
Bank acting as the leader of an issuing or lending syndicate, managing the transaction. It is normally responsible for contact with the borrower, for the structure, organization and text of the loan agreement and prospectus, plus the composition of the issuing syndicate and the selling group and, ultimately, for the placement itself.
Industry:Banking
Bank clients who meet the professional criteria set out in MiFID, including credit institutions, investment firms, pension funds and their management companies, and other institutional investors. Certain private clients may also qualify for professional status if they meet specific quantitative and qualitative criteria. Professional clients are considered to possess the experience, knowledge and expertise to make their own investment decisions and properly assess the risks they incur. They obtain an intermediate level of protection under MiFID and gain the benefit of conduct of business provisions relating to best execution and order handling.
Industry:Banking
Barrier option which only has a value on expiry when the underlying reaches a specified price level (barrier) during the term of the product.
Industry:Banking
Basket product based on a number of equities selected on the basis of an index or in accordance with particular criteria laid down by the issuing bank. See also basket certificate.
Industry:Banking
Borrowed funds raised within the banking system in contrast to funds placed with the bank by the public.
Industry:Banking
