- Industry: Financial services
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The chance that a security's value will change due to a change in interest rates. For example, a bond's price drops as interest rates rise. For a depository institution, also called funding risk: The risk that spread income will suffer because of a change in interest rates.
Industry:Financial services
A computerized database maintained by the NYSE to keep track of enforcement actions, audits, and complaints against member firms. This term is not an acronym but is referred to in capitals.
Industry:Financial services
A binding agreement between counterparties to exchange periodic interest payments on some predetermined dollar principal, which is called the notional principal amount. For example, one party will pay fixed and receive variable.
Industry:Financial services
A legal proceeding for liquidating or reorganizing a business.
Industry:Financial services
A cash value life insurance policy whose insurance dividend rates vary with respect to inflation, enabling the policyholder to avoid the loss of purchasing power associated with inflation.
Industry:Financial services
Value at which a company's shares are recorded in its books.
Industry:Financial services
Stocks whose earnings are dependent upon and change with the interest rate, e.g., bank stocks.
Industry:Financial services
