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*The difference between '''[[shares]]''' and '''[[bonds]]''', where they fit in the [[capital structure]] and, indeed, what a [[capital structure]] ''is'';
*The difference between '''[[shares]]''' and '''[[bonds]]''', where they fit in the [[capital structure]] and, indeed, what a [[capital structure]] ''is'';
*What '''[[trust]]s''' are and why we use them;
*What '''[[trust]]s''' are and why we use them;
*How [[bank account]]s work, what '''[[indebtedness]]''' is and what '''[[bank]]'''s do with your '''[[deposit]]'''s (and no, it isn’t “put them in a safe in a jar with your name on it”);
*How '''[[bank account]]s''' work, what '''[[indebtedness]]''' is and what '''[[bank]]'''s do with your '''[[deposit]]'''s (and no, it isn’t “put them in a safe in a jar with your name on it”);
*The difference between [[amendment]] and [[waiver]];
*The difference between '''[[amendment]]''' and '''[[waiver]]''';
*What [[set-off]] is, how it works, and when it doesn’t;
*The difference between '''[[title transfer]]''' and '''[[pledge]]''';
*The difference between [[title transfer]] and [[pledge]];


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[[Derivatives]] as explained to [[my neighbour Phil]]
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In a desperate attempt to stop salespeople going, “hey legal eagles, can you read this email for me”, and to counterpoint lackadaisical credit officers saying, “the question of whether we have credit risk to our own bank account is a legal question on which I can’t opine”[1] we are running a snagging list of legal concepts about which no bank employee should plead ignorance. It is your job to know this stuff.

Stuff you should know, banker’s edition, then:

See also

Derivatives as explained to my neighbour Phil

References

  1. Real-life quote, by the way, from a managing director in a global investment bank, to which the retort should have been, but I regret to say was not, “pal, if you are really saying you don’t know that, you need to get your coat”.