- 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.
Taking into account seasonal fluctuations to ascertain to what extent a change in the original data reflects the «actual» development of the economy.
Industry:Banking
Commodity exchange on which futures contracts are traded. Opposite: spot market.
Industry:Banking
Issue whose bonds can be converted into shares or participation certificates of the issuing company under certain conditions and at specified terms.
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
Checking value-at-risk calculations and investment and hedge strategies against historic data. Backtesting enables the robustness of models to be tested under market conditions.
Industry:Banking
Also: capped FRN. Floating rate note with a maximum interest rate. See also cap.
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
Spread applied by banks, determined by transaction costs plus a profit margin.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation: IRG. Swiss federal government institution set up to facilitate investment in developing countries. Investors can use the guarantee to cover certain risks which neither they nor their partners in the recipient country can influence and which they cannot cover in any other way. Under certain conditions, the investment risk guarantee covers inability or refusal to pay on the part of governments and public authorities, as well as the risks of political events or government measures in the recipient country. In Switzerland, the IRG is governed by the Federal Law on the IRG dated 20 March 1970.
Industry:Banking
Savings, lending or mortgage bank that initially drew up a mortgage loan or proposed a new securities issue.
Industry:Banking
