List of Investment Bank Terms and Phrases
What Are Investment Banks
A
- Accelerator
- Accredited Investor
- Accrued Interest
- Agency Relationship
- Alpha
- Alternate Assets
- Angel Investor
- Annual Report
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Asset-Backed Security ABS)
- Asset Class
- Assets Under Management
- Average Cost
B
- Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)
- Basel Framework (Basel III)
- Basis Point (BPS)
- Beta
- Big Board
- Bilateral Repo
- Blue Chip
- Bond
- Bond Fund
- Bootstrapping
- Broker
- Brokerage Firm
- Bulge Bracket Banks
C
- Call
- Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
- Carried Interest
- Cboe Global Markets
- Central Bank Money
- Central Securities Depository (CSD)
- Chaining
- Clearing
- Clearing Bank
- Clearing Fund
- Clearing House
- Clearing System
- CME Group Inc.
- Collateral
- Collateral Pool
- Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs)
- Commercial Bank Money
- Committed Facility
- Commodity
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Cooke & Company
- Cooke, Jay (Financier)
- Corporate Bond
- Cost of Carry
- Counterparty
- Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR)
- Counterparty Risk
- Credit
- Credit Institution
- Credit Line
- Credit Limit
- Credit Risk
- Credit Transfer
- Creditor
- Cross Border Payment
- Cross Border Settlement
- Cross-Currency Swap
- Cross-Margining Agreement
- Cross System Settlement
- Cumulative Distribution
D
- Debt
- Default
- Deleverage
- Delivery (Financial)
- Depository Institution
- Desk (Trading)
- Direct Participant
- Discount
- Discount Security (Zero Coupon Instrument)
- Discount Window
- Dividend
- Dividend Aristocrats
- Dividend Kings
- Domestic Settlement
E
- Earmarking
- Earmarking System
- Equity
- Eurodollar
- Eurodollar System
- Euro Overnight Index Average (EONIA)
- Euro Short-Term Rate (€STR)
- European Central Bank (ECB)
- Exchange
F
- Fed Funds Rate
- Fixed Income Fund
- Fixed income Security
- FOREX
- Forward Rate Agreement (FRA)
- Forward Transactions in Securities
- Forwards
- Free-Of-Payment (FOP) Delivery
- Fund
- Fund Manager
- Futures Contract
- Futures Market
G
- Gaussian copula
- General Collateral (GC)
- General Collateral Finance Repo Market
- Going Public
- Growth Investing
- Growth Stock
H
I
- Implied Volatility
- Index
- Index Fund
- Indirect Participant
- Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Insider
- Insider Trading
- Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE)
- Interbank Deposits
- Interest Rate
- Interest Rate Risk
- Interest Rate Swap (IRS)
- Internal Settlement
- International Bank Account Number (IBAN)
- International Banking Facilities (IBF)
- Investment
- Investment Advisor
- Investment Banking
- Investment Grade Bonds
J
L
- Large Cap (Stock)
- Lead Arranger
- Letter of Credit
- Leverage
- Leveraged Buyout
- Leverage Ratio
- Linked Trade
- Liquidity Risk
- Longer-Term Interest Rates
- LIBOR
M
- Margin Call
- Margin Trading
- Market Infrastructure
- Market Maker
- Market Price
- Market Risk
- Market Timing
- Marking-to-Market
- Merchant Bank
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
- Master Account
- Maturity
- Maturity Distribution
- Median Market Cap
- Mid-Cap (Stock)
- Money Demand
- Money Market
- Money Market Mutual Fund
- Morningstar Rateing
- Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS)
- Mutual Fund
N
- Negative Interest Rates
- Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP)
- Net Asset Value (NAV)
- Net Credit Cap
- Net Margining
- Net Settlement System
- Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR)
- Netting
- Netting by Novation
- Neutrality of Money
- New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
O
P
- Par Value
- Physical Delivery
- Portfolio
- Preferred Stock
- Pre-Fixed Coupon
- Premium
- Price-to-Earnings (P/E) Ratio
- Primary Dealer
- Primary Dealer Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Principal (debt service context)
- Principal Risk
- Private Sector Credit Flow
- Private Sector Debt
- Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
- Put
Q
R
Repo Market
Reverse Repo Market
S
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Seed Funding
- Seed Round
- Sell
- Settlement
- Settlement Account
- Settlement Agent
- Sharpe Ratio
- Short-Term Investment
- Small Cap (Stock)
- Solvency Risk
- Sovereign Debt
- Special Drawing Right (SDR)
- Standard Deviation
- Stocks
- Syndicated Loan
- Systemic Risk
T
- Tax-Exempt Income
- Technical Analysis (TA)
- Tender Procedure
- Tenor (Financial)
- Term Sheet
- Tracking Error
- Transfer Agent
- Treasury Bill
- Treasury Note
- Treasury Bond
- Trigger
- Tri-Party Repo
- Total Addressable Market (TAM)
- Tuck-In Acquisition
- Turnover Ratio
U
V
- Valuation
- Valuation Models
- Value at Risk (VaR)
- Value Stock
- Value Style Funds
- Variable Rate Bonds
- Variable Rate Tender
- Variation Margin
- VIX
- Volatility