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Financial services

Related to any service provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of organisations that deal with the management of money.

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foreign bond

Financial services; Finance

A bond that is issued in a domestic market by a foreign entity, in the domestic market's currency. A foreign bond is most often issued by a foreign firm to raise capital in a ...

common share

Financial services; Finance

Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security. The terms "voting share" or "ordinary share" are also used frequently in other parts of the world; common ...

preferred share

Financial services; Finance

Preferred stock (also called preferred shares, preference shares or simply preferreds) is a stock which may have any combination of features not possessed by common stock ...

monetary gold

Financial services; Finance

Monetary gold. Gold held by governmental authorities as a financial asset. Monetary Gold. Gold owned by a government, usually as part of its currency reserves.

bill broker

Financial services; Finance

One who negotiates the discount of bills of exchange either as agent or usually by buying and selling them or buying them and carrying them with money borrowed upon them as ...

discount houses

Financial services; Finance

Primarily operating in the United Kingdom, a firm that buys, sells, discounts and/or negotiates bills of exchange or promissory notes.

acceptance houses

Financial services; Finance

An acceptance house guarantees the payment of bills used to finance trade deals and goods in shipment. Its profit is the difference between the discounted amount it guarantees to ...