- Industry: 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.
Investmentfonds, dessen Vermögen in Aktien, Anleihen oder anderen Wertpapieren angelegt sind.
Industry:Banking
Restructuring of the capital stock of a company by combining several of the old shares into one new share or preferred (preference) stock and common stock into a single share category.
Industry:Banking
Also: unlimited. Order from a client for the purchase or sale of a security to be executed by the bank at the best possible price. No maximum or minimum price is prescribed. See also market order. Opposite: limited.
Industry:Banking
Also: advances, due from banks and customers. In general, that which is due and collectable. The total amounts due on goods sold, services rendered or money loaned. In bank balance sheets, unsecured current account loans (overdrafts). Opposite: deposits.
Industry:Banking
Provision of the capital required for the export of goods and (for export financing in the broad sense) for services such as construction, engineering and development work abroad. Export financing normally takes the form of a supplier credit by the exporter and the utilization of bank loans. Letters of credit play a major role in short-term export financing. Medium to long-term financing by banks is the main form of export financing in Switzerland today. Special forms of export financing: countertrades. Export financing in Switzerland is in many cases used in conjunction with federal export risk guarantees (SERV).
Industry:Banking
Short for Zurich gold pool. Name of the gold trading organization set up by Switzerland's big banks in March 1968 after a two-tier gold market had been created.
Industry:Banking
Also: preferred claim under bankruptcy. Preferential position among claims in the event of bankruptcy proceedings. Not until all claims of the preceding class have been satisfied can the proceeds from the liquidation of any remaining assets be used to meet lower-ranking claims. In the event of a bank filing for bankruptcy, depositor protection applies.
Industry:Banking
Cashless transfer of money between different postal checking accounts.
Industry:Banking
Share with a high par value or a price well above the average.
Industry:Banking
