- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 25840
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
System under which a licence is granted to manufacture or market a product or service for which the equipment or supplies are manufactured and furnished by the franchisor. The franchisee makes an initial payment and/or pays a royalty on the product or service to the franchisor. Franchises are often granted for a particular territory and for a particular period. The franchisor usually performs certain managerial functions and assumes specific investment and operating costs, while the franchisee operates for his own account.
Industry:Banking
The transfer of title or rights to an order instrument by signing on the back of the instrument. See also assignment.
Industry:Banking
Risk arising from political, economic, legal or social factors in a particular country.
Industry:Banking
Provision contained in Switzerland's Stock Exchange Act stipulating that the shareholders of listed companies must disclose share purchases or sales that result in their voting rights exceeding or falling below a threshold of 5, 10, 20, 33 1/3, 50 or 66 2/3% of the company's total voting rights.
Industry:Banking
Also: clean B/L. A bill of lading that contains no positive notation of a defective condition or shortage either of the cargo or its packaging. The seller must deliver the goods in seaworthy packaging.
Industry:Banking
Option transaction where the buyer of securities obtains the right, in exchange for a premium specified in advance, to demand delivery of the securities at a higher price agreed upon when the contract was made or to deliver them at a specified lower price. Put and call options are in some regards comparable with a straddle.
Industry:Banking
Complete list of security code numbers. In Switzerland, maintained and updated by Telekurs AG.
Industry:Banking
Shares of two legally independent companies, whose shareholders must be identical and which were joined together as the result of a merger and are inseparably linked.
Industry:Banking
Trans-European automated realtime gross settlement express transfer system. Inter-EMU payment system consisting of a network of realtime clearing systems (one per member country). TARGET is configured to be linked to compatible systems in non-EMU countries.
Industry:Banking
Euronext came into existence in September 2000 as a result of the merger of the spot and forward exchanges of the financial centres Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris. Since then it has grown further due to the addition of the Portugese spot and forward exchange BVLP and London's LIFFE. Website: www.euronext.com.
Industry:Banking
