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Banking

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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shareholder value added (SVA)

Banking; General banking

A financial performance metric that attempts to measure the benefit created for a firm's capital holders. It is expressed in dollar terms for a period - not as a percentage return ...

soft call protection (for convertible bonds)

Banking; General banking

One of two types of call protection. Soft or provisional call protection prohibits an issuer from calling a bond issue until a certain threshold price level for the underlying ...

repositioning repurchase agreement

Banking; General banking

A funding technique often used by dealers who encourage speculation through the use of gains trading, pair-off, when-issued, and extended settlement ploys. When an investor agrees ...

repricing

Banking; General banking

(1) A contractual provision applicable to specific loans, investments, or deposits that changes the interest rate paid or received. For example, a loan may have an interest rate ...

spread

Banking; General banking

(1) noun — The difference between two prices or two rates. Different users have many different and highly specific usages of this term. For example, traders use spread to mean the ...

static spread

Banking; General banking

(1) The difference between two values at a single point in time. For example, the difference between two yields. (2) The calculated spread over the Treasury yield that the ...

revolving line of credit

Banking; General banking

A type of credit facility. A term that can be confusing, with different banks using the term to describe different types of credit facilities. In some banks, "revolving line of ...