- Industry: Financial services
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Statistical measure that quantifies the distance (measured in standard deviations) a data point is from the mean of a data set. Separately, Z score is the output from a credit-strength test that gauges the likelihood of bankruptcy.
Industry:Financial services
A plan in which either the number of shares and/or the price at which they will be issued is not known on the grant date.
Industry:Financial services
A swap bank's portfolio of swaps, usually arranged by currency and maturity.
Industry:Financial services
An REIT that invests in loans secured by real estate which derive income from mortgage interest and fees.
Industry:Financial services
A security that sells at a fluctuating market-determined price stocks and bonds are example.
Industry:Financial services
The tax statement used for reporting proceeds resulting from the sale, redemption or liquidation of shares.
Industry:Financial services
The department in a brokerage firm that monitors customers' margin accounts, ensuring that all short sales, stock purchases, and other positions are covered by the margin account balance.
Industry:Financial services
A varible-rate agreement, as distinguished from a fixed-rate agreement, calls for an interest rate that may fluctuate over the life of the loan. The rate is often tied to an index that reflects changes in market rates of interest. A fluctuation in the rate causes changes in either the payments or the length of the loan term. Limits are often placed on the degree to which the interest rate or the payments can vary.
Industry:Financial services
The collection of monthly payments and penalties, record keeping, payment of insurance and taxes, and possible settlement of default , involved with a mortgage loan.
Industry:Financial services
Short-term certificate of deposits that pay interest periodically on roll dates. On each roll date, the coupon on the CD is adjusted to reflect current market rates.
Industry:Financial services
