- Domeniu: Financial services
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- Company Profile:
UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
Debt enforcement proceedings which seek to sell the pledged assets or mortgages used to secure the debt. This procedure is subject to the existence of a pledge agreement.
Industry:Banking
Measure of a bank's capital expressed as a percentage of its risk-weighted credit exposures.
Industry:Banking
Company which is wholly or predominantly owned by one family. If the family company is a limited company, it is known as a family limited company. In contrast to this, ownership of a public limited company or other limited company is more broadly based.
Industry:Banking
Assets which can be used immediately to make payments (cash liquidity). According to Article 15 of the Implementing Ordinance for the Swiss Banking Law, liquid assets consist of cash and equivalent, giro (clearing) balances and postal checking account balances.
Industry:Banking
Also: consumer loan. Relatively small loan generally granted to private individuals to acquire consumer durables or finance holidays. See also personal loan.
Industry:Banking
In a letter of credit operation, the bank which accepts the documents for the purpose of examining and crediting the documentary credit amount from the exporter (beneficiary).
Industry:Banking
Privately negotiated transactions in public or private companies with a view to increasing their value in order to exit from the investment at the desired point in time. Private equity firms can invest in companies at various stages of their development, from financing startups (venture capital), through providing capital to rapidly growing businesses (growth capital) to leveraged buyouts of mature businesses (buyouts).
Industry:Banking
A short-term loan made to enable a borrower to complete a purchase before he receives funds from another source, e.g. seasonal loan.
Industry:Banking
