- Industry: Financial services
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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.
Device which can be used to call up information on securities (prices, dividends, earnings per share, etc.) from a central electronic system.
Industry:Banking
Financial obligations towards foreign creditors, for example in the form of balances due to banks located abroad. Opposite: foreign assets.
Industry:Banking
A plan of future income and expenses during a specified period (frequently one year).
Industry:Banking
Also: endowment capital. Capital made available by public authorities to companies that it owns and that are not public limited companies. For example, cantonal banks are provided with endowment capital by the canton. The allocation of capital by the central office of an organization to its non-autonomous branches is not regarded as endowment capital in the true sense of the word.
Industry:Banking
Method of determining the true or intrinsic value of a share on the basis of fundamental factors (e.g. balance sheet, income statement, management record, overall industry). Used as a gauge of future profit and dividend growth. A share trading lower than its estimated intrinsic value is classed as underpriced.
Industry:Banking
Person party to confidential information on the strength of his or her professional position. Normally used in connection with information which when made public is likely to have a significant influence on the price of securities. See also insider transactions.
Industry:Banking
(1) Highest price given for the purchase or sale of securities (price limit).
(2) Upper limit for the utilization of a credit (credit line).
Industry:Banking
Accounting term denoting an amount of money set aside from profits and other company funds transferred from surplus or undivided profits to a special liability account. In Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Code of Obligations and the Banking Law require the formation of reserves. Reserves serve an important safety function but are also used for self-financing. See also legal reserves, voluntary reserves, disclosed reserves, statutory reserves, undisclosed reserves.
Industry:Banking
Also: asset management, wealth management. The management of a portfolio or certain assets by a portfolio manager assigned this function on the basis of a management mandate. The banks perform portfolio management services in connection with their custody activities. See also managed account, sealed safekeeping account, open safekeeping account.
Industry:Banking
Certificates that represent the ownership of shares. They may relate to one or multiple shares or to a fraction thereof. GDRs are traded on the stock exchange in lieu of the original shares. See ADR.
Industry:Banking
