Finance Basics, TRA-YIE
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Travelers Insurance, leading American insurance company with a history of mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs,......
treasury bill, short-term U.S. government security with maturity ranging from 4 weeks to 52 weeks. Treasury bills......
treasury note, government security, usually marketable, with maturity ranging from one to five years. Because their......
trust company, corporation legally authorized to serve as executor or administrator of decedents’ estates, as guardian......
Tōkai Bank Ltd., Japanese commercial bank that merged with Sanwa Bank and Asahi Bank to form UFJ Holdings, Inc.,......
UBS AG, major bank formed in 1998 by the merger of two of Switzerland’s largest banks, the Swiss Bank Corporation......
UFJ Holdings, Inc., Japanese bank holding company that became one of the world’s largest banking institutions through......
unemployment insurance, a form of social insurance (q.v.) designed to compensate certain categories of workers......
UPI, an abbreviation for Unified Payments Interface, is a digital system that allows instant money transfer and......
Union Bank of Switzerland, former Swiss bank, one of the largest banks in Switzerland until its merger with the......
usury, in modern law, the practice of charging an illegal rate of interest for the loan of money. In Old English......
Vanderbilt family, one of the wealthiest and most prominent families in the United States. The third generation......
venture capital, in business finance, funds provided by wealthy individuals, investment banks, or other financial......
viatical settlement, arrangement by which a terminally ill patient’s life-insurance policy is sold to provide funds......
Volatility is a measure of the frequency and magnitude of changes in the price of a stock, exchange-traded fund......
wage and salary, income derived from human labour. Technically, wages and salaries cover all compensation made......
Wall Street, street, in the southern section of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, which has been the location......
war finance, fiscal and monetary methods that are used in meeting the costs of war, including taxation, compulsory......
Warburg family, a family whose members were eminent in banking, philanthropy, and scholarship. Presumably of Italian......
Wells Fargo, multinational financial services company with headquarters in San Francisco, California. The founders......
Welser Family was a family of German merchants, most prominent from the 15th to the 17th century. It first became......
wildcat bank, unsound bank chartered under state law during the period of uncontrolled state banking (1816–63)......
workers’ compensation, social welfare program through which employers bear some of the cost of their employees’......
yield curve, in economics and finance, a curve that shows the interest rate associated with different contract......