- 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.
Totality of measures taken by a central bank to control the money supply, interest rates and the exchange rate against foreign currencies.
Industry:Banking
A freeze on the repayment of debt or the extension of the lending period. Moratoriums are often declared by governments, typically in favour of developing countries. See also Paris Club, debt rescheduling, debt rescheduling agreement.
Industry:Banking
Also referred to as the recipient. Person or company to whom or to whose order the amount written on a bill, cheque or negotiable instrument by the drawer is to be paid.
Industry:Banking
A specified sum of money lent by a creditor or lender (e.g. a bank) to a person or entity and repayable at a predetermined due date or after notice of repayment is given. See also fixed advance.
Industry:Banking
Savings account maintained in book form. Although once widely used, it has now largely been replaced by the savings account.
Industry:Banking
All operations to be performed in connection with the investment of funds in order to optimally attain a specific investment objective. Depending on the financial circumstances of the investor, special importance is attached to security, yield, the price and growth potential of the holdings or their liquidity. Of equal significance is the timing of the acquisition and sale of the investments.
Industry:Banking
Savings deposits managed in the form of a bank account offering special legally defined protection (preferred claim under bankruptcy). Reflecting the savings nature of the account, withdrawal options are more restricted than with a personal account but the interest is usually higher.
Industry:Banking
Also: loan. Legal operation by which the creditor transfers money to the borrower which he/she must repay at the end of the term, when called or in instalments. Loans must be repaid and normally entail interest payments. Loans are categorized according to length of term, cover, purpose or form of interest. See also: unsecured credit, mortgage, collateral loan, working capital loan, capital investment loan, consumer credit, fixed advance.
Industry:Banking
