- Industria: Financial services
- Number of terms: 25840
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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.
Also: customer funds. Accepting customer deposits is part of banks' core business in which they act as financial intermediaries. Banks use customer deposits as the main source of funding for their lending and investment activities.
Industry:Banking
The study of coins in all aspects, i.e. as a state-approved form of payment, as artefacts conveying information about language, writing and metallurgy, and as works of art.
Industry:Banking
An option contract which grants the right to buy or sell a certain currency at a predetermined price for a limited period of time. Currency options are used above all for hedging currency risks.
Industry:Banking
In terms of asset class: investments with direct exposure to the property market, e.g. direct ownership in real estate, investments in unlisted/private real estate securities or pure real estate funds with holdings predominantly in direct real estate.
Industry:Banking
Also referred to as a swap. An arrangement in which a currency is sold at the spot rate and then immediately repurchased forward or the other way round. Currency swaps are used to hedge currency risks on export credits. See also swap, spot transaction.
Industry:Banking
Procurement of the short- to long-term financial resources needed by the enterprise. Consulting and support given to companies in the field of corporate finance is an important area of banking, esp. for big banks.
Industry:Banking
Term coined in the seventies to describe the combination of slow or non-existent economic growth (stagnation) with relatively strong price increases (inflation).
Industry:Banking
