- 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.
Also: accounts, annual accounts. The balance sheet and profit and loss account/income statement of a company prepared at the end of an accounting period.
Industry:Banking
Also: electronic bourse, screen-based trading. Trading system where stock exchange transactions are carried out via a computer system, e.g. SWX Swiss Exchange.
Industry:Banking
Any place or system where the requirements of business enterprises and public authorities or governments for medium- and long-term capital funds can be met. Opposite: money market.
Industry:Banking
(1) In stock exchange trading, the difference between the par value and the higher market value of a security expressed as a percentage of the par value. Similarly in forex trading, the difference between a forward and spot rate, where the forward rate is the higher.
(2) Options: synonym for option price.
(3) Penalty payable if one party to a contract withdraws from a transaction.
(4) The amount of money payable for an insurance policy.
(5) The amount by which the price of a security exceeds its peers.
Industry:Banking
The price at which a stock exchange transaction is effected. Each trading price on the Swiss Exchange is registered and published (provided a round lot has been traded). By contrast, an asked price is the lowest price offered by the seller and a bid price is the highest price a buyer is prepared to offer. The first price paid for a listed security on a given day is called the opening price, the last paid price being the closing price.
Industry:Banking
(1) Banking: the act or process of placing money in a property, security or other item of value or in a venture, generally on a longer-term basis.
(2) Business management: medium and long-term investment of capital in means of production to replace worn-out equipment or expand production capacity.
Industry:Banking
Also: capital base.
(1) In a broader sense a synonym for equity capital.
(2) Banking: Article 11 of the Implementing Ordinance for the Swiss Banking Law stipulates that equity consists of core capital (Tier 1 comprising paid-up capital, disclosed reserves and profit brought forward) as well as certain additional capital components eligible for inclusion in tier one (undisclosed reserves and subordinated bond issues). Equity capital must satisfy the requirements set out in the Banking Law, but in most cases it goes beyond these prescribed limits. Equity is an important measure of how financially sound a bank is.
(3) Lending: the capital or assets which an applicant must usually have (except in leasing) in order to be granted a loan.
Industry:Banking
