- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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Agreement concluded among country representatives in 1988 in Switzerland to develop standardised risk-based capital requirements for banks across countries.
Industry:Financial services
Ratio of cash assets to debt service (interest plus nearby principal). Used in evaluating the risk of a project or firm. The higher the ratio the less likely the firm or project will fail to meet its debt obligations.
Industry:Financial services
Refering to an option or future that is settled in cash when exercised or assigned. No physical entity, either stock or commodity, is recevied or delivered.
Industry:Financial services
Applies to derivative products. Combination of a long position in a stock/index/commodity and short position in the underlying futures, which entails a cost of carry on the long position.
Industry:Financial services
A payment term meaning the buyer pays the seller before shipment is effected.
Industry:Financial services
In a typical exchange offer, "old" shares of the target company are exchanged for "new shares".
Industry:Financial services
In the context of securities, this refers to the practise of institutional investors paying the full purchase price for securities in cash.
Industry:Financial services
These laws enable shareholders to sell their stakes to a "controllin" shareholder at a price based on the highest price of recently acquired shares. This works something like Fair-Price provisions extended to nontakeover situations. A few states have these laws.
Industry:Financial services
The process by which the terms of an option contract are fulifilled through the payment or receipt in dollars of the amount by which the option is in-the-money as opposed to delivering or receiving the underlying stock.
Industry:Financial services
Nominee name for The Depository Trust Company, a large clearing house that holds shares in its name for banks, brokers and institutions in order to expedite the sale and transfer of stock.
Industry:Financial services
