- 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.
Equity sector incorporating shares of companies involved in oil and natural gas exploration, production, transportation and/or refininement. The respective MSCI Sector index acts as a benchmark for shares of companies belonging to this sector.
Industry:Banking
Auction in which buyers submit increasing bids, usually following a pre-established bid increment, and in which the highest bidder wins and is required to pay the seller the amount of the winning bid. See also auction, Dutch auction.
Industry:Banking
Also: equity financing. Equity financing provided by a bank for newly incorporated companies or those exhibiting strong growth with a good credit rating.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation for Uniform Customs and practise for Documentary Credits prepared by the International Chamber of Commerce.
Industry:Banking
Mandatory US standards for the presentation of accounts. See also Swiss Accounting and Reporting Recommendations, International Financial Reporting Standards.
Industry:Banking
The segment of the Euromarket which specialises in settling short- to medium-term deposits (with maturities not exceeding 18 months).
Industry:Banking
The segment of the Euromarket where instruments with medium- to long-term maturities (i.e. maturities of longer than 18 months), above all eurobonds, are issued and traded.
Industry:Banking
International financial market consisting of several spezialized markets on which bank loans and bond and equity issues are transacted in Eurocurrencies such as Eurodollars, Euro-DEM and Euro-FRF. Despite its name, the Euromarket is by no means confined to Europe geographically; the most important trading currency is the US dollar. Since the introduction of the euro the term 'international financial market' is increasingly being used. See also Euromoney market, Eurocapital market.
Industry:Banking
Umbrella organisation founded jointly in the second half of 1998 by the Swiss Exchange and Deutsche Börse AG to operate the first ever cross-border futures market. The merger of SOFFEX and DTB Deutsche Terminbörse produced a common platform for full electronic trading and clearing of derivatives instruments. One of the world's largest derivatives exchanges. Website: www.eurexchange.com.
Industry:Banking
Brand of travellers cheque accepted throughout the world and marketed by a large number of financial institutions.
Industry:Banking
