- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
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A service that electronically transfers all or part of any recurring payment?including dividends, paychecks, pensions, and Social Security payments?directly to a shareholder's account.
Industry:Financial services
The home currency price of one unit of a foreign currency.
Industry:Financial services
The purchase of a controlling interest in a company or at least enough interest to have enough influence to direct the course of the company.
Industry:Financial services
Contract in which a lessor purchases new equipment from the manufacturer and leases it to the lessee.
Industry:Financial services
A fraction of overhead costs devoted to the manufacturing sector of a firm to cover expenses such as rent and utilities.
Industry:Financial services
An investment program enabling investors to directly participate in the cash_flow and tax benefits of the partnership invested in by the investor, typically a form of passive investment.
Industry:Financial services
Selling a new issue not by offering it for sale publicly, but by placing it with one of several institutional investors.
Industry:Financial services
A plan that enables interested first-time individual investors to purchase a company's stock directly from the company or without the direct intervention of a broker. The administrator also ensures the safekeeping of the shares by registering them directly on the books of the company. No need for shareholders to hold on to physical certificates.
Industry:Financial services
For foreign exchange, the number of US dollars needed to buy one unit of a foreign currency.
Industry:Financial services
