- 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.
(1) The amount of money subscribed by the shareholders at par to a company. The equity capital of a public limited company is equal to the share capital plus any participation certificate capital.
(2) Capital stock of a public limited company. Legally governed in Switzerland by Art. 621 ff. of the Code of Obligations.
Industry:Banking
A statement of the assets and liabilities of a bank existing at a particular time or date. In Switzerland, the Banking Law and its Implementing Ordinance stipulate binding regulations for the preparation and publication of annual accounts and interim financial statements. Article 25 of the Implementing Ordinance details minimum requirements.
Industry:Banking
The planning, implementation and monitoring of measures designed to ensure that adequate liquidity is maintained, surplus funds are profitably invested and shortfalls are made up in good time and at low cost.
Industry:Banking
Mortgage note in which both lender and borrower are the same person. A mortgage note in the name of the owner is issued, for example, when a mortgage is repaid and the mortgage note is transferred to the name of the borrower.
Industry:Banking
The open market for lending or borrowing short-term funds (as a rule up to 12 months) and dealing in negotiable instruments. In addition to the national money markets, the Euromoney market has developed in recent years into an efficient international marketplace for dealing in short-dated loanable funds.
Industry:Banking
Also referred to as market risk. Risk dependent on factors which influence the entire market and cannot be reduced or eliminated by portfolio diversification.
Industry:Banking
On the Swiss Exchange: acceptance of an order that is already contained in the central order book.
Industry:Banking
Any event that brings material change to a company and affects its shareholders, both common and preferred, as well as bondholders. These events, such as splits, dividends, mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs, are generally approved by the company's board of directors; shareholders are permitted to vote on some events as well.
Industry:Banking
