- Industry: 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.
Also: widely held share.
(1) Share issued in Germany in connection with privatizations of public sector companies and offered to a broad section of the population.
(2) In Switzerland: share which is widely held by the general public. See also low-priced share.
Industry:Banking
Structured product contracts with trigger points that, when crossed, automatically generate events such as changes in value, redemption or coupon.
Industry:Banking
Abbr.: CIF. Also: Cost, Insurance and Freight. A contractual term usual in foreign trade which states that all costs for shipping, insurance and freight to the harbour of destination are included in the price of the goods. CIF is only practicable for sea or inland waterway transport. In all other cases the CIP clause is used in place of CIF. See also FAS, FOB.
Industry:Banking
A market is referred to as narrow if a security is traded irregularly or if only a few units of a particular issue are in circulation. Sizable buying or selling orders for such securities generally lead to sharp price fluctuations in a narrow market.
Industry:Banking
Realizing a stock market profit by either selling the securities at a price which is higher than the cost price or, in the case of a short sale, by repurchasing the securities at a price which is lower than the selling price.
Industry:Banking
An amount of money deposited as security for a contingent obligation resulting from the violation of a right. The term «security» is also used in a more general sense to refer to any form of guarantee or surety for obligations that are uncertain, disputed or not yet due.
Industry:Banking
Mean due date for several sums payable at different dates (frequently applies to a bill of exchange).
Industry:Banking
The value of a variable below which a certain percentage of observations fall.
Industry:Banking
Yen-denominated bond issued by non-Japanese borrowers on the primary market in Japan and which are almost exclusively traded over-the-counter on the international secondary market.
Industry:Banking
Supplementary capital that forms part of bank's equity. The tier 2 capital comprises hybrid trading instruments, hidden reserves in the value adjustments and provisions position, fluctuation reserves in the fixed assets, loans and bonds with an original subordinated term to maturity of at least 5 years and 50% of the further contributions the bank is liable to make on a certain amount. See also tier 1.
Industry:Banking
