- 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.
Assets of a company which enable it to produce its goods or services. They include administrative buildings, plant facilities, liquid assets, etc. Opposite: non-operating assets. See also fixed assets, current assets.
Industry:Banking
Bond that has a coupon rate far below rates currently available on investments and whose value is at a significant discount from par value. See also zero bond.
Industry:Banking
Shares issued to founders of a company as compensation for previously unpaid services. They grant certain preferential rights, e.g. to a part of the net profit or the liquidation proceeds. Known in the United Kingdom as deferred shares.
Industry:Banking
Plastic card issued to bank customers for the efficient handling of transactions carried out over the counter or via ATMs. The necessary control data, such as the customer's PIN, are stored in the magnetic strip.
Industry:Banking
A market player's total position, ascertained by offsetting purchases against sales.
Industry:Banking
(1) In Switzerland: the sale of medium-term notes, which were formerly only placed privately. Under current legislation, an issue prospectus has to be published.
(2) On the Euromarket: the placing of short to long-dated notes with a select group of investors (international private placements).
Industry:Banking
The margin or difference between the market value of collateral and the credit granted. This margin is demanded by the bank to cover itself against any possible decline in the value of the collateral. See also margin (3).
Industry:Banking
Raising the necessary financial resources for the acquisition of a controlling interest in one company by another company. Such transactions are frequently combined with bank loans, bank guarantees and securities issues. See also leveraged buyout.
Industry:Banking
