- 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.
A bond issue where interest payments are not made in the same currency as the payments of the principal. In Switzerland, this type of issue is limited to foreign bonds. As a rule issue and interest payments are generally made in CHF, while payments of principal are made in USD. The variety of dual currency loans on the Euromarket is considerably larger.
Industry:Banking
Term commonly used in documentary credit transactions denoting the complete set of bills of lading (i.e. the full set of original documents).
Industry:Banking
Bond issue placed for public subscription by a borrower who is domiciled in the country where the issue is floated. Opposite: foreign bond issue.
Industry:Banking
Written obligation on the part of the bank acting as paying agent to hand over the definitive certificates to the subscriber as soon as they have been issued.
Industry:Banking
(1) Drawing up of reports by companies on their business activities.
(2) Reporting of on-exchange securities trades. A requirement on the Swiss Exchange.
Industry:Banking
EBS term for a «circuit breaker» that automatically triggers a halt in the trading of a security as soon as a deal exceeds the percentage limits on either side of the reference price.
Industry:Banking
Counselling facilities of a bank or other specialised units in the area of asset management. Advisory services are geared to clients' requirements: capital growth or income-oriented. Unlike with a managed account, the client ultimately makes his own investment decisions. Investment advisory services may also include succession planning, drafting agreements and establishing foundations.
Industry:Banking
US banking law introduced in 1931 in response to the stock market crash of 1929 which prohibits commercial banks from engaging in investment banking and prevents deposit banks from dealing in securities.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation: SPI. Broadest based Swiss share index, covering all domestic companies listed on the Swiss Exchange. Weighted by capitalization and dividend-adjusted, the SPI is an ideal benchmark for performance comparisons.
Industry:Banking
