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The business of a banker, banking involves an establishment for the loaning, holding, exchanging, or issuing of money. Also deals with the transmission of funds and the extensions of credit.

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cash flow hedge

Banking; General banking

A type of hedge defined by FAS 133. An entity may designate a derivative instrument as hedging the exposure to variability in expected future cash flows that is attributable to a ...

cash instrument

Banking; General banking

Financial instruments or commodities for which the value is dependent upon the term, coupon rate, or other characteristics of the instrument itself. Differs from derivative ...

collateralized debt obligation (CDO)

Banking; General banking

(1) A multi-tranche security with credit risk exposure to corporations. A securitization of corporate obligations. CDOs can be securitizations or re-securitizations of commercial ...

Check 21 Act

Banking; General banking

The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (Pub. L. No. 108-100 - signed by President Bush on October 28, 2003). The law facilitates check truncation by creating a new negotiable ...

collateralized debt obligation (CDO)

Banking; General banking

(1) A multi-tranche security with credit risk exposure to corporations. A securitization of corporate obligations. CDOs can be securitizations or re-securitizations of commercial ...

collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO)

Banking; General banking

A type of MBS created by dividing the rights to receive the principal and interest cash flows from an underlying pool of mortgages into separate classes or tiers. The tiers or ...

commercial loan theory of liquidity

Banking; General banking

An explanation of bank liquidity described by Adam Smith: short-term loans advanced to finance salable goods on the way from producer to consumer are the most liquid loans the ...