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Negotiable Financial Instruments

• Type of Instruments
• Commercial Paper
• Bonds
• Corporate Debt Securities
• Commercial Paper Outstandings Federal Reserve
• Bankers Acceptances
• Guarantees
• Bank Guarantees for officially supported exports
• Zero-Coupon Instruments
• Zero Coupons and STRIPS
• Fixed Income - Zero Coupon Instruments
• Advantages of Convertible Securities
• Treasury Bills
• Treasury Bills: How Marketable Treasury Securities Really Work
• Treasury Bills: U.S. Treasury Securities
• Certificates of Deposit: Large Negotiable Certificates of Deposit
• Certificates of Deposit: Advantages of certificates of deposit (CDs)
• Certificates of Deposit Offerings
• Certificates of Deposit: Utilizing foreign fixed deposits (CD's) for credit lines
• Eurodollar
• About Corporate Medium-Term Notes
• Repurchase and Reverse Repurchase Agreements
• Alternative investments: Managed futures and hedge funds
• 1996 Survey of Corporate Medium-Term Notes
• Cashing negotiable instruments
• The Money Market
• Behind the Money Market:  Clearing and Settling Money Market Instruments
• Security Identifiers (Screens)
• CUSIP Security Identifier (Screen)
• Discounting of bank guarantees (BG's)
• Retail Deposit Notes
• Risk Free Capital Accumulation

Forex trading

Background to Forex Trading

• Advantages
• Origins
• Who participate in Forex Trading?
• Main Forex Markets
• Market Dynamics
• Speculation/Investing
• Margin Trading
• Trading with a Strategy
• Risks inherent to Forex
• Forex abbreviations

I want to trade myself

• What do I have to know and do to trade in Forex?
• Courses and Training
• Books

Forex Trading Managed Account

• Managed Account

Project Financing & Loans

• Loans on a world wide level
• Project finance
• Arbitrage loans
• Preparing your business plan
• The executive summary
• Finance procedure
• International construction loans
• Interesting project financing links
• Suggested Banks in the USA
• Business Plans
• Business Plan Basics
• Gathering Information For Your Plan
• Business Plan Maintenance
• Business Plan Mistakes
• Design Your Plan to Fit Your Business
• Do I need a business plan?
• The Essential Contents of a Marketing Plan
• Public Relations Marketing
• Business Plan Software

Investment opportunities

• Unique Investment Opportunity
• Leads & requests
• Want to invest
• Books on investment

Venture capital

• About Venture Capital Investor
• Our Venture Capital Investors
• Venture Funding Procedure
• Guide To Writing A Business Plan
• Is VC good for Your Business?
• Venture Vs. Debt Financing
• Learn About Capital Sources
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Venture Anti Frauds
• Preliminary submission form for Venture Capital

Forms

• Personal Particulars Form
• Letter of Intent to Request Funding
• 4081 Insurance Guarantee
• Bank Guarantee
• Letter of Intent to Guarantee
• Non-circumvention/Non-disclosure/Fee agreement
• Declaration of Non-Solicitation
• Confidentiality, Non-circumvention and heads of agreement
• Submitting the proper documentation and paper work
• Preparing proper documentation and utilizing paper work correctly

Marginal trading

• Introduction to Marginal Account
• Margin: Borrowing money to pay for stocks
• What is a Margin Account?
• About Margin calls
• Buying Power and Excess Margin
• The advantages and disadvantages of a Margin Account
• Debit Balance and Margin Interest Rates
• Margin Account Approval
• Margin Requirements
• Margin account - diversified portfolio
• The intelligent way to trade shares

Precious metals

• Certificate of authority to sell
• Full Corporate Offer
• Letter of intent - precious stones
• Letter of Intent

Other

• Welcome
• Search
• Terms of use
• Glossary of Terms
• Confidentiality Statement

Information

• Financial Holding Companies
• What are investment advisers?
• Internet Fraud: How to avoid Internet investment scams
• Tips for online investing: What you need to know about trading in fast-moving markets
• About settling trades in three days: Introducing T+3
• Trade Execution: What every investor should know
• Paper Trading
• So-called "Prime" bank and similar financial instruments
• Prime bank instrument scam
• Standby letters of credit: The private primary market
• Warning from IMF against financial schemes misusing its name
• Historical Bonds: Names you should know
• Easy money: Profiting from restricted stocks
• The top banks in the world based ranked according to Assets
• The top banks in the world based ranked according to Market Capitalisation
• See world's top banks credit ratings from Fitch, Standard &Poor and Moody as in 2010
• Bank Ratings
• History and development of bank instruments
• ICC endorsement of the UNCITRAL Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit
• The mechanics of prime bank SLCS and guarantees
• Model for valuing bonds and embedded options
• Section 1109.32
• Capital Markets
• Bank Guarantees (BG's)
• Corporate Bonds
• Corporate Medium Term Notes (MTNs)
• Corporate Promissory Notes
• Funding mega dollar projects utilizing bank guarantees (BG's) or other bank instruments
• Letters of Credit (LC, ILC & Pay Order)
• Foreign Government or Corporate Medium Term Notes (MTN's)
• Stand By Letters of Credit (SBLC's)
• Money Leveraging
• Securities Lawyer's Deskbook
• U.S. Certificate of Deposits (CD's)
• United States Medium Term Notes (MTN's)
• Definition of American Depositary Share (ADS)
• Portfolio Collateralization
• Documentary and Standby letters of Credit
• Typical suggestion for a Due Diligence Checklist
• Typical list of available securities
• Sec Interpretation: Use of Electronic Media
• Frauds, Phonies and Scams
• Information on Financial Scandals

Abbreviations - Business

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Abbreviations - Additional International

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Abbreviations - New Deal Agency

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Abbreviations - Foreign Currency

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Currency and Trade Areas

Definitions and descriptions of financial terms

Accommodation Paper | Accommodation Party | Active Account | Active Market  | Active Securities | Adjustment Bonds | African Development Bank  | After Acquired Property Clause | Amortization | Accumulation | Bank Accounting Practices | Amortization Loans | Amortized Loans | Amortized Values | Analysis Department | Arbitrage | Assets | Asset Value | Assignats | Assigned Book Accounts | Assignee | Assignment | Assignment For the Benefit of Creditors | Assignment In Blank | Assignment Of Claims Act | Assignor | Availability Date | Available Funds | Average | Average Collection Period | Average Loan And Balance File | Averaging

Bank Draft | Bank Notes | Bank Securities | Bankers Acceptance | Bill of Exchange | Bond | Bond Market | Bond of Indemnity | Bond Ratings | Bond Register | Bonds Value Table |  | Broker | Business Trade Cycle | Business Paper | Buying Order 

Callable Bonds | Care of Securities | Certificates of Deposit | Certified Cheque | Checking Commercial Paper | Coincident Indicators | Commercial Paper | Commercial Paper Futures

Debenture Bonds | Details of Regulation E

Earning Assets | Earnings per share | Earnings Quality | Easy-Off | Easy Money | | Earning Power | Economic Indicators | EE Savings Bonds | Effectiveness | Effective Interest Method | Efficiency | Efficient Market Hypothesis | Elastic Currency | Electronic Fund Transfer | Electronic Fund Transfer Act | Encumbrance | Endorse | Endorsed Bond | Endorsee | Endorsement | Endorsement in blank | Endorsement in full | Endorser | Equal Coverage | Equation of Exchange | Equities | Equity | Equity Conversion | Equity Earnings | Equity Funding | Equity Method of Accounting | ESCROW | ESCROW Bond | Ethics | Eurocurrency | Eurodif | Eurodollars | European Monetary System | European Payments Union | Evergreens | Exchange Rate | Exchange Restrictions | Exchanges | Exchanges for clearinghouse | Ex-Coupon | Ex-Dividend | Exempt Security | Exhaust Price | Expectations Theory of Interest Rates | Expected Value | Expiration Date | Export Letter of Credit | Extended Bond | Extension Bond | External Bond | Extraordinary Item

Face Value | Factor | Failures | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | Fails | Fair Market Value | Fair Return | Fangs | Federal Funds | Federal Funds Market | Federal Intermediate Credit Banks | Federal Open Market Committee | Federal Reserve Act | Federal Reserve Bank | Federal Reserve Bank Notes | Federal Reserve Board Regulations | Federal Reserve Credit | Federal Reserve Notes | Federal Reserve Ratio | Federal Reserve Statement | Federal Reserve System | Fedwire | Fee | Fee Simple | Fiat Money | Fictitious Payee | Fiduciary Capacity | Fiduciary Currency | Finance | Finance Bill | Financial Brokers | Financial Disclosure Requirements | Financial Indicators | Financial Instruments: Recent Innovation | Financial Intermediary | Financial Magazines | Financial Markets | Financial News | Financial Planning | Financial Reporting | Financial Responsibility | Financial Risk | Financial Service Corporations | Financial Solvency | Financial Statements | Financial Statement Analysis | Financier | Fineness | First-Class Paper | Fiscal Year | Fixed Assets | Fixed Assets Test | Fixed Capital | Fixed Charges | Fixed Cost | Fixed Income | Fixed Liabilities | Float | Floating Capital | Floating Charge | Floating Debt | Floating Discount Rate | Floating Price Rate | Floating Rate Notes | Floating Supply of Securities | Floor | Floor Planning Finance | Floor Trader | Floor Trading | Flower Bonds | Fluctuation | Forecasting Financial Requirements | Foreclosure | Foreign Bills of Exchange | Foreign Bondholders Act of 1933 | Foreign Bonds | Foreign Corporation Bonds | Foreign Deposits | Foreign Government Bonds | Foreign Investment | Foreign Trade | Foreign Transactions and Operations Accounting | Forfaiting | Forged Instruments Forgery | Forward Contract | Forward Movement | Foundations | Freddie Mach | Free Bonds | Freehold | Free Market | Free Trade | Free Trade Zone | Free Working Capital | Frozen Account | Frozen Credits | Full Disclosure | Fundamental Conditions | Funded Debt | Funding | Funds | Fungible Goods | Funny Money | Future Amount | Future Interest | Futures | Futures Market | Futures Trading Terms: Glossary | Future Value

Gains | General Ledger | General Purpose Financial Statements | Gold | Gold Bars | Gold Basis | Gold Bloc | Gold Brick | Gold Bullion Standard | Gold Certificates | Gold Clause Cases | Gold Clearance Fund | Gold Consumption | Gold Dollar | Gold Exchange Standard | Gold Export Point | Gold Exports | Gold Futures | Gold Holdings | Gold Import Point | Gold Imports | Gold Inflation | Gold Movements | Gold Notes | Gold Points | Gold Pool | Gold Production | Gold Reserve | Government Bonds | Government Obligations | Government Securities Dealers and Brokers | | Graduate School of Banking | Graduate Securities | Gross Debt | Gross Deposits | Gross Earnings | Gross Revenues | Group Banking | Guaranteed Bank Deposits | Guaranteed Bonds | Guaranteed Investment Contract | Guaranteed Mortgage Certificates | Guaranteed Stocks | Guaranty Fund 

Hammering the Market | Hard Spot | Hedging | High Finance | High Grade Investments | Highly Leveraged Transaction | High Yield Bonds or Junk Bonds | Holdovers | Hung up | Hypothecary Value | Hypothecation | Hypothecation Certificate

Import Letter of Credit | Improvement Bonds | Imputed and Implicit Costs | Inactive Account | Inactive Market | Inactive Post | Inactive Securities | In and Out | Income Bonds | Income Capital Certificate | Income Effect | Income Redistribution | Income Return | Inconvertible Paper Money | Incorporated Trustee | Indemnity Bond | Indenture | Indeterminate Bonds | Indexing | Indicated Yield | Indifference Curve | Individual Banker | Individual Deposits | Industrial Bonds | Industrial Collateral | Industrial Revenue Bonds | Inflation | In-Kind Transfers | Input-Output Table | Insider | Insider Trading | Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act of 1988 | Insider Trading Sanctions Act of 1984 | Installment Bonds | Instrument | Instrumentality | Insufficient Funds | Insured Bank | Intangible Assets | Interchangeable Bonds | Interest | Interest Balance | Interest Bearing Securities | Interest Coverage Ratio | Interest Rate Swap | Interest Tables | Interim Certificates | Intermarket Trading System | Intermediate Credit Banks | | Internal Bonds | Internal Rate of Return | International Banking | International Banking Department | International Clearinghouse | International Credit Insurers Union | International Debt Problem | International Gold Movements International Monetary Fund | International Money Orders | International Securities | International Trade Administration | International Trade Commission | Investing | Investment | Investment Banker | Investment Banks | Investment Barometers | Investment Company Investment Credit | Investment Income | Investment Market | Investment Methods and Strategies | Investment Risks | Investment Securities | Investor | Invisible Hand | Invisible Imports | Invisible Supply | Invoice | Irredeemable Bonds | Irredeemable Debenture | Irredeemable Paper Money | Irregularities | Issue Issue Price | Characteristics of Selected Investments

Leading Indicators | Lagging Indicators | Letter of Credit | Leverage

Margin | Margin Account | Marginal Efficiency of Capital | Margin Buying | Margin of Safety | Market | Maturity | Maturity Distribution | Money Market | Money Market Certificate | Money Market Deposit Account | Money Market Funds

Negotiable Documents | Negotiable Instruments | Negotiable Instruments Law | Commercial Paper | Bank Deposits and Collections | Secured Transactions: Sales of Accounts, Contract Right and Chattel Paper | Negotiable Paper | Negotiable Securities | Note | Note Brokers

Offshore Banking | Opening Price | Open Market Operations in Foreign Exchange | Option Period | Options | Orders | Overnight Loan | |Over-the-Counter Market

Paper, Paper Basis, Paper Money | Portfolio Insurance | Present Value | Program Trading | Promissory Note | Purchase Accounting | Purchased Paper

Rate of Return on Securities | Registered Bond | Repurchase Agreements | Revolving Credit Seasoned Securities | Secondary Distribution,  |Secondary Liability, Secondary Market & Second-Class Paper | Securities | Securities Markets | Securitization | Security Loans | Settlement | Short-Term Notes | Sinking Fund- | / Assets / Bonds / Redemption Notice | Standby Letter of Credit | Street Broker | Subordinated Debentures | Swap | Sweep Account | Syndicate

Thin Margin | Third Market | Time Certificate Deposit | Trade Acceptance | Trade Paper, Trader, Trader's Market, Trading Account Securities and Trading Market | Trading Methods | Trading Value | Treasury Bills | Treasury Notes

Value Date |

Yield | Yield to Call and Yield to Maturity

Zero-Coupon Bonds and Zero-Coupon Convertible

Recommended Reference Column to other sites

• Trading and Capital-Markets Activities Manual by the Federal Reserve Board
• Staff Study 172 - Using Subordinated Debt as an Instrument of Market Discipline by the Federal Reserve Board
• Staff Study 173 - Improving Public Disclosure in Banking by the Federal Reserve Board
• Standby Letter of Credit and Builders Letter of Credit by the New York State Banking Department

Financial Bookshop

(Associate to Global-Investor Bookshop - Order Financial Books on-line through us)

• Books on Project Financing
• Books on Financial Instruments
• Books on Bonds
• Books on Investing
• Encyclopedia of Banking & Finance
• Supervision Manuals by The Federal Reserve Board

Online book

Understanding Financial Markets & Instruments

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction to Financial Markets
• Chapter 2: The Equity Market
• Chapter 3: The Money Market and Instruments
• Chapter 4: The Capital Market and Instruments
• Chapter 5: The Foreign Exchange Market
• Chapter 6: Derivatives - Futures
• Chapter 7: Derivatives - Options
• Chapter 8: Specialised Interest Rate Derivatives
• Chapter 9: Valuation and Accounting of Financial Instruments and Derivatives
• Chapter 10: Derivatives - Hedging Techniques
• Glossary
  • Appendix 1: Example of a bond
  • Appendix 2: Example of a share certificate
  • Appendix 3: Example of JSE stock information screen
  • Appendix 4: Example of securities transfer form
  • Appendix 5: Example of broker's note
  • Appendix 6: Example of dealer's transaction note
  • Appendix 7: Example of BA
  • Appendix 8: Example of negotiable certificate of deposit
  • Appendix 9: Example of a treasury bill
  • Appendix 10: SAFEX contract specifications
  • Appendix 11: Example of futures daily cash flow statement
  • Appendix 12: Example of option agreement

Articles

• A Guide to Offshore Trusts and International Financial Planning

Training

• Links to useful Educational Resources
• Links to useful sites for Financial Students

Financial Statistics

• Base Metals Prices
• Commercial Paper
• Eurodollar Deposits (London)
• Forex Spot Rates
• Interest Rate Swaps
• Major Indices
• Major US Interest Rates
• Major World Interest Rates
• Major 3-month LIBOR Rates
• US Certificates of Deposit
• US Treasury Bills