- 行业: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
- Company Profile:
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Actual separate payments made by a customer for services, including research, provided by a brokerage firm. Antithesis of soft dollars.
Industry:Financial services
A U.S. government agency that regulates and administers the shipping industry. This agency also grants freight forwarder licenses.
Industry:Financial services
Foreign currency purchase or sale at the current exchange rate but with payment or delivery of the foreign currency at a future date.
Industry:Financial services
Warrant that allows the user to purchase a bond only by surrendering an other bond with similar terms.
Industry:Financial services
A publicly owned, government-sponsored corporation chartered in 1938 to purchase mortgages from lenders and resell them to investors. Known by the nickname Fannie Mae, it packages mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration, but also sells some nongovernment-backed mortgages.
Industry:Financial services
Commonly known as Harmonized System. It isa a classification system devised by the Customs Cooperation Council to provide uniformity in tariff classification, trade statistics, and transport documentation among cooperating countries.
Industry:Financial services
The body that is responsible for setting the interest rates and credit policies of the Federal Reserve System.
Industry:Financial services
Agreement that obligates an investor to deliver a specified quantity of one currency in return for a specified amount of another currency.
Industry:Financial services
Often used in risk arbitrage. Antitrust act administered by U.S. Department of Justice and the FTC that requires an investor to file a form with the government before he acquires an economic interest in the lesser amount of $15 million or 15% of the capitalization of a specific security. The government has thirty days to respond to the filer.
Industry:Financial services
