Glossary

The Jolly Contrarian’s Glossary
The snippy guide to financial services lingo.™

Glossary Absolute value Acceleration Actual/365 ADR AET-35 Affiliate Aleatory contract All watched over by machines of loving grace Alternative dispute resolution Anarcho-syndicalist commune Annual general meeting Anti-money laundering Antifragile Antitrust Arbitration Assets under management Assignee Assignor Awards Axe Bank for International Settlements Bankruptcy administrator Bankruptcy set-off Belgian dentist Best execution Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future Bid and offer Billy Idol Black-Scholes option pricing model Bob Cunis Bonum ovum Bread Bright-line test British pound Brokerage Buck Bundesverband deutscher Banken Burden and standard of proof Business day Buyer Calculation period Callable Cambrian explosion Carry trade Cash flow Cashflow-negative enterprise Central securities depositary Cheapest-to-deliver Cherry-picker Chicken Licken CHiPs Chiz Civil law Clear desk policy Clearing member Clearing system Clearstream Close-out netting Cognitive dissonance Collateral Combination of accounts Commercial contract Commission Commodities Common depositary Common law Community Companies Act 2014 (Ireland) Condition precedent Confirmation Constitutive documents Contango Contract of loan Contractual negligence Contractual settlement Coronavirus Corporate action Corporate personality of the year Covered short COVID-19 Crazy-ape bonkers Credit derivative Credit risk mitigation Credit risk mitigation technique Credit value adjustment Cry-Baby Wah-Wah CSD Cum-ex trade Custody chain Custody network David Bowie, Dad’s Army, and financial armageddon Day count fraction Dealer Deed Deed poll Deep magic Default Default under specified transaction Defendant Delivery versus payment Dick move Difference engine Dirty price Disclaimer Discounting Discretionary trust Dividend Doctrine of precedent Documentation Donald Rumsfeld Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act 2008 Duck-billed platypus Duty of care Dyscomium Edge Efficient market hypothesis Eheu Electric guitar Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 End user Enhanced beta EONIA Equity of redemption Equity securities Equivalent Escheatment Espiecie Estoppel ETD Euro Euro short-term rate European Central Bank European option Eurozone Event of default Exchange-traded security Exclusive licence Execution date Execution management system Exposure Extended phenotype Externality Extraordinary general meeting Fact Fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory and transparent FCR-eligible asset Financial Collateral Arrangement Regulations Financial Markets Law Committee Financial products Markup Language Financial services movies First-loss Floating leg Following business day convention Football team For the avoidance of doubt Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2009 Foreign exchange Fraud Front office Fruits of the contract FT book about stock loans Full stop Fund of hedge fund Fungible Futures Geek paradox Generalia specialibus non derogant George Orwell George Santayana Global financial crisis Global security Glossary Godwin’s law Goldman Good faith Good standing Government bond Grace period Grotesque Haircut Herbalife Hold the Line Homey don’t play that Homo economicus Hotel California Hypertext mark-up language Hypothetical Illegality Imagine Implied term In accordance with its terms In-the-money Inclusive disjunction Industry association Ineffable Initial margin Insurance Insurance company Insurance contract Inter-affiliate ISDA negotiation

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