- Industry: Financial services
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A forbidden practice in which the member of an underwriting syndicate retains a portion of an initial public offering (IPO) and resells the securities at a higher price determined by the market at a later time. Also forbidden is a brokerage customer's rapid buying and selling of a security without putting up money for the purchase.
Industry:Financial services
A contract entered into now that provides for the delivery of a specified asset in exchange for the selling price at some specified future date.
Industry:Financial services
An investor's right to transfer securities from one name to another name without paying charges that accompany a sales transaction.
Industry:Financial services
Insurance created to cover losses from specified financial transactions.
Industry:Financial services
A stock that is paid for in full and is not pledged in any way as collateral.
Industry:Financial services
Design of any new financial product, such as exotic currency options and swaps.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. Not subject to any internal (restricted list) or external restrictions on trading; hence, the trader is free to solicit interest.
Industry:Financial services
An enterprise such as a bank whose primary business and function is to collect money from the public and invest it in financial assets such as stocks and bonds.
Industry:Financial services
A term used to indicate that an underwriting syndicate's members are no longer restricted to the fixed price agreed upon in the agreement among underwriters and are permitted to trade the security on a free market basis.
Industry:Financial services
Insurance coverage for loans by banks to foreign buyers of exports.
Industry:Financial services