- 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.
Abbreviation: IAS. Standards drawn up by the International Accounting Standards Board with a view to ensuring the quality, transparency and comparability of balance sheets and annual accounts. The International Accounting Standards are now known as the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), but the individual IAS standards have not been renamed.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation: IASB. Independent, privately funded international organisation based in London which is responsible for drawing up the International Accounting Standards. Website: www.iasb.org.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation: IBAN. Standard developed by the ISO and the ECBS for identifying banks and account numbers. Its main purpose is to simplify cross-border financial transactions and thereby rationalise payments between various countries.
Industry:Banking
Acronym for United Nations/Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport, a set of regulations defined and continually adapted by the United Nations which is specifically developed for the electronic exchange of data. It establishes the norms for business and trade processes and counteracts proprietary standards within specific industries. UN/EDIFACT is applied worldwide and enables process integration between software programmes of all participating companies.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation: IFRS. Accounting standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. The International Accounting Standards are now referred to as the IFRS, but the individual IAS standards have not been renamed.
Industry:Banking
Also: not easily marketable. Refers to securities that are difficult to sell and value. Opposite: marketable.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation: ISMA. Umbrella association of institutions and traders active on the Eurobond market which develops rules and regulations governing Euromarket transactions. Website: www.isma.org.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation: SPBA. Swiss Private Bankers Association, based in Geneva. Website: www.swissprivatebankers.com.
Industry:Banking
Equity sector incorporating shares of companies producing, transporting and/or distributing electricity, gas or water to end users. The respective MSCI Sector index acts as a benchmark for shares of companies belonging to this sector.
Industry:Banking
