- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
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Formed in 1985 to promote uniform practices in the writing, trading, and settlement of swaps and other derivatives.
Industry:Financial services
Stock in a firm that relies on financial leverage. Holders of leveraged equity experience the benefits and costs of using debt.
Industry:Financial services
Bank or financial institution issuance's of funds in a certain amount provided to facilitate international trade.
Industry:Financial services
A method of approximating a price or yield that is unknown by using numbers that are known.
Industry:Financial services
An investment company or mutual fund entitled to borrow capital for its operations. Also, an investment company that issues both income shares and capital shares.
Industry:Financial services
Puts limits on the quantity of certain products that can be legally imported into a particular country during a particular time frame. There is a Fixed quota, which is a maximum quantity not to be exceeded, and tariff rate surcharge, which permits additional quantities but at much higher duty.
Industry:Financial services
The practice of using a second broker in a securities transaction, which is considered illegal it is if used to generate additional commission.
Industry:Financial services
A lease arrangement under which the lessor borrows a large proportion of the funds needed to purchase the asset. The lender has a lien on the assets and a pledge of the lease payments to secure the borrowing.
Industry:Financial services
A development strategy followed by many Latin American countries and other LDCs that emphasize import substitution-accomplished through protectionism-as the route to economic growth.
Industry:Financial services
A trust created between living persons. Antithesis of a testamentary trust.
Industry:Financial services
