- 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.
The placement of securities by the issuer at his/her own risk. The banks act as subscription agents and obtain a placement commission for any subscriptions effected through their efforts. See also: firm underwriting.
Industry:Banking
Right of the creditor next in order of priority to move up to the vacant place in the land register.
Industry:Banking
A community of persons or companies with common interests which combine to carry out common measures, contribute to a common fund of resources or further a common effort. The rights and duties of pool members are usually governed by a contract. Examples: gold pool, shareholders' pool.
Industry:Banking
A claim on the state arising from a loan or credit entered in an official register of debt (Switzerland: Federal Debt Register). No securities are issued for such claims; they are recorded solely in the Register.
Industry:Banking
Blanket credit line based on a loan agreement and on bilateral agreements in the form of a treaty or correspondence between Switzerland and a developing nation.
Industry:Banking
Company that comes to the aid of another company that is the subject of a planned unfriendly takeover. A white knight often buys larger blocks of shares or makes a merger offer. See also black knight.
Industry:Banking
Large number of shares of the same company owned by a single shareholder.
Industry:Banking
Someone who, in addition to acting as a buying and selling agent for others, buys and sells for his own account. See also broker.
Industry:Banking
Bond with no maturity date. Perpetual bonds make regular interest payments, but never redeem the principal amount. To get back the capital invested in such bonds, investors must sell them on an exchange.
Industry:Banking
