- Branża: Financial services
- Number of terms: 25840
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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.
Part of a company's annual report consisting of the balance sheet, the profit and loss account and the notes. Banks with total assets of CHF 100 million or more which transact a significant amount of balance sheet business are also required to produce a cash flow statement. Annual financial statements are intended to enable as reliable an assessment as possible of the company's asset and earnings situation.
Industry:Banking
An account which must be opened when concluding futures contracts so that the margin required for these transactions can be paid into it. See also initial margin, maintenance margin and variation margin.
Industry:Banking
Also referred to as market risk. Risk dependent on factors which influence the entire market and cannot be reduced or eliminated by portfolio diversification.
Industry:Banking
An endorsement whereby the endorsee is given only the full authority to collect a debt, without transfer of ownership. The endorsee may also pass on the security in his turn, but only by way of a further collection endorsement.
Industry:Banking
On the Swiss Exchange: acceptance of an order that is already contained in the central order book.
Industry:Banking
Assets or capital which are immediately accessible or transferable into cash.
Industry:Banking
Any event that brings material change to a company and affects its shareholders, both common and preferred, as well as bondholders. These events, such as splits, dividends, mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs, are generally approved by the company's board of directors; shareholders are permitted to vote on some events as well.
Industry:Banking
(1) Securities trade: obligation arising from new purchases of securities. Also a designation for the entire securities portfolio of an investor or group of buyers.
(2) Lending business: the credit liability which a bank has assumed in regard to a customer or borrowing country.
(3) When an investor exposes assets to the influence of uncertain variable (risk factors), the assets are exposed to these factors.
Industry:Banking
