- 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.
The number of days per month and year taken for interest calculations. German practice (also followed in Switzerland): 1 month = 30 days, 1 year = 360 days. UK practice (followed on the Euromarket): the exact number of days in a calendar month is taken; 1 year = 365 days.
Industry:Banking
Also: Hague apostille. Form of authentication and legislation introduced between the countries bound by the 1961 Hague Convention abolishing the requirement for legalization of foreign public documents in order to facilitate international legal transactions. The apostille is in the shape of a square measuring 8 x 8 cm and is placed on official public documents. It confirms the authenticity of a public document following presentation of the original, thus waiving the requirement for verification by the consular officials of the country in which the document is intended for use. The apostille is issued by the administrative bodies of the relevant administrative sector. Apostilles for judicial documents are issued by the courts.
Industry:Banking
Also: stock market capitalization, capitalization. Value of a corporation as determined by the price of its equity. Calculated by multiplying the market value of the security (share, participation certificate) on a given day by the total number of securities in issue. See also market value.
Industry:Banking
Form of share common in the USA, the UK and Germany, which confers on the holder voting rights, the right to participate at the annual general meeting and the entitlement to distributions of income. See also preference share.
Industry:Banking
Also: base currency. (1) Currency in which an investor thinks and calculates. (2) Currency in which the performance of an investment product is measured.
Industry:Banking
Letter of credit that cannot be changed or cancelled without the agreement of all parties, this being the norm in international trading. An irrevocable letter of credit gives the seller the security that the opening bank will make the payment if the documents stipulated under the documentary credit terms are presented as agreed. If payment is made via a correspondent bank, the opening bank can ask the latter at the demand of the principal to confirm the irrevocable letter of credit rather than merely issuing notification. The correspondent bank is then obliged to make the payment itself at the domicile of the beneficiary on due presentation of the documents (confirmed letter of credit). See also documentary credit.
Industry:Banking
Right to a specific payment. A demand by one person on another under asserted legal or judicial rights. In the case of a nominal claim, the demand is exclusively for a certain sum of money. In bank balance sheets a distinction is drawn between claims on banks and claims on clients. See also receivable
Industry:Banking
The practice of exploiting local and international price differences for identical assets (e.g. securities, currencies, banknotes) by buying said assets in the market with the lowest prices and selling them in the market with the highest prices. See also interest-rate arbitrage, cash-and-carry arbitrage.
Industry:Banking
