- Branche: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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A foreign affiliate that is legally a part of the parent firm. According to the U.S. tax code, foreign branch income is taxed as it is earned in the foreign country.
Industry:Financial services
A corporation conducting business in another country from the one it is chartered in and that abides by the laws of another country. See: Alien corporation.
Industry:Financial services
The process of providing a market for a security. Normally, this refers to bids and offers made for large blocks of securities, such as those traded by institutions. Listed options may be used to offset part of the risk assumed by the trader who is facilitation the large block order. See also: Hedge ratio.
Industry:Financial services
An amendment to the Securities Exchange Act created to sanction bribery of foreign officials by publicly held US companies.
Industry:Financial services
A financial institution that buys a firm's accounts receivable and collects the accounts.
Industry:Financial services
A private consortium of US insurance companies that offers trade credit insurance to US exporters in conjunction with the US Export-Import Bank.
Industry:Financial services
A statistical procedure that seeks to explain a certain phenomenon, such as the return on a common stock, in terms of the behavior of a set of predictive factors.
Industry:Financial services
A way of decomposing the forces that influence a security's rate of return into common and firm-specific influences.
Industry:Financial services
