- 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.
Equity sector incorporating shares of companies offering any kind of telecom services. The respective MSCI Sector index acts as a benchmark for shares of companies belonging to this sector.
Industry:Banking
Also known as CHF foreign bonds. CHF-denominated bonds (mostly straight, convertible or warrant issues) placed on the Swiss capital market by foreign borrowers, usually with a term to maturity of 5 to 15 years.
Industry:Banking
A joint venture between Swiss banks for the settlement of interbank payments (SIC) and the transmission of stock exchange data and financial information, as well as promoting the use of cashless payments.
Industry:Banking
A financial innovation based on an agreement between one or more financial institutions and a borrower which allows the borrower to borrow funds up to an upper limit through the revolving placement of Euronotes on the Euromarket within a time frame of five to seven years. A key feature is the obligation of participating banks (underwriters) to purchase the Euronotes at the contractually agreed interest rate or to make alternative backup or standby facilities available if the borrower is not able to sell the Euronotes on the market. Euronotes only have a maturity of a few months and must therefore - depending on demand - be reissued by the borrower upon expiry (revolving underwriting facility or note issuance facility).
Industry:Banking
Australian platinum coin containing one ounce of platinum with a face value of AUD 100. Koala coins containing 1/2, 1/4 and 1/10 of an ounce of platinum are also minted.
Industry:Banking
SRI approach (subset of positive screening) that focuses on issues related to the transition to sustainable development (e.g. water, demographics) and a low carbon economy (e.g. renewable energy). To be considered SRI only when environmental, social or governance criteria are taken into account in the construction process of the product. This requires the existence of specific mechanisms, such as the involvement of SRI expertise in stock analysis selection, the application of an screens, or the management of the product by the SRI team.
Industry:Banking
Option which can only be exercised on the last day of trading, i.e. on maturity. See also: American-style option.
Industry:Banking
Written undertaking, for example on competition between banks or the repayment of savings deposits or account balances in the event of involuntary liquidation of a bank.
Industry:Banking
Medium- to long-term debt instruments issued by the US Treasury in the form of a bond, with maturities mostly longer than 10 years. See also treasury bill.
Industry:Banking
Abbr.: ECU. Former currency unit equal to the sum of the values of the currencies of the previous 12 EU member states whose currencies made up the ECU currency basket: the value of an ECU was calculated as a weighted average of these currencies. The ECU was abandoned upon introduction of the euro on 1 January 1999. The euro replaced the ECU on the basis of 1 ECU = 1 euro.
Industry:Banking
