- 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.
Broker who executes stock exchange transactions at favourable rates but without providing advice.
Industry:Banking
Right to a specific payment. A demand by one person on another under asserted legal or judicial rights. In the case of a nominal claim, the demand is exclusively for a certain sum of money. In bank balance sheets a distinction is drawn between claims on banks and claims on clients. See also receivables.
Industry:Banking
A financial future based on the development of a share or price index within a specified period. See also share index.
Industry:Banking
Abbr. P/B. The ratio of the stock market price to the book value per share. If the value is below 1, this suggests the share is undervalued.
Industry:Banking
Also: troy ounce. Unit of weight corresponding to approximately 31.1035 grams. In international precious metals trading, prices are quoted in USD per troy ounce.
Industry:Banking
A lien on real property which encumbers the land and all movables on it needed to fulfil the purpose of that property. To avoid subsequent disputes, the pledgor must as a rule submit a list of appurtenances to the land register office.
Industry:Banking
The practise of exploiting local and international price differences for identical assets (e.g. securities, currencies, banknotes) by buying said assets in the market with the lowest prices and selling them in the market with the highest prices. See also interest-rate arbitrage, cash-and-carry arbitrage.
Industry:Banking
Loan secured by pledging securities and precious metals in order to finance stock market transactions. See also lombard loan.
Industry:Banking
Trend away from bank to market financing or - seen from the banks' perspective - away from balance-sheet to off-balance-sheet operations. Banks are acting less as independent deposit-takers and lenders and more as intermediaries between investors and borrowers. See also securitization.
Industry:Banking
