- Industry: Financial services
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A collective term that refers to global bonds, Eurobonds, and foreign bonds.
Industry:Financial services
A communication to the firm from the SEC that suggests changes to its registration statement.
Industry:Financial services
Stock or mutual fund whose purchase date and price may be identified for capital gains and tax purposes when shares sold.
Industry:Financial services
A business organization with membership from over 80 countries. They work to harmonize trade practices worldwide by establishing agreed upon rules such as Incoterms and Uniform Customs and Procedures for Documentary Credits.
Industry:Financial services
A form of guarantee of payment issued by a bank on behalf of a borrower that assures the payment of interest and repayment of principal on bond issues.
Industry:Financial services
Unsystematic risk or risk that is uncorrelated to the overall market risk. In other words, the risk that is firm-specific and can be diversified through holding a portfolio of stocks.
Industry:Financial services
A receipt issued by a bank as evidence of ownership of one or more shares of the underlying stock of a foreign corporation that the bank holds in trust. The advantage of the IDR structure is that the corporation does not have to comply with all the issuing requirements of the foreign country where the stock is to be traded. The US version of the IDR is the American Depository Receipt (ADR).
Industry:Financial services
A letter from a bank to a brokerage firm which states that a customer (who has written a call option) does indeed own the underlying stock and the bank will guarantee delivery if the call is assigned. Thus the call can be considered covered. Not all brokerage firms accept letters of guarantee. Also: letter issued to Option Clearing Corporation by member firms covering a guarantee of any trades made by one of its customers, (a trader or broker on the exchange floor).
Industry:Financial services
In over-the-counter trading, same as H-H page, but exclusively for OTC stocks.
Industry:Financial services
Association established to stimulate country development; it was especially suited for less prosperous nations, since it provided loans at low interest rates.
Industry:Financial services
