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  • Financial Derivative

    Hierarchical Display of Financial derivative Finance > Free movement of capital > Financial market > Financial instrument Meaning of Financial derivative Overview and more information about Financial derivative For a more comprehensive understanding of Financial derivative, see in the […]

  • Derivatives

    Derivatives Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)The The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Derivatives in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: Financial instruments whose value varies with the value of an underlying asset […]

  • Derivative Instruments

    Contracts such as options and futures whose price is derived from the price of the underlying financial asset….

  • Derivative Markets

    Markets for derivative instruments….

  • Shareholder

    Shareholder

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Shareholder Meaning of Shareholder One who owns one or more shares of capital stock of a corporation . Also one who has subscribed for a share or shares, and who is entered on the books of the […]

  • Brief

    What does Brief mean in American Law? The definition of Brief in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is: Originally any writing, especially in letter form; also any summary or condensed statement. Cf. briefing a case. Today the […]

  • Brief

    What does Brief mean in American Law? The definition of Brief in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is: Originally any writing, especially in letter form; also any summary or condensed statement. Cf. briefing a case. Today the […]

  • Institute

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Institute Meaning of Institute To set up, originate, establish , initiate, commence , cause to be, found, ordain, introduce, bring into use or practise . Sometimes the word in its plural form is used to […]

  • Option

    A privilege existing in one person who has given legal consideration for acquiring the same, giving such person the right to call for the delivery or of making the delivery of, or both, certain merchandise or specified securities , if he chooses, at any time within an agreed […]

  • Stockholder

    The owner of shares in a corporation which has a capital stock . See shareholder .

  • Underlying

    The something that the parties agree to exchange in a derivative contract….

  • Dependent

    One who is unable to subsist without the aid of another. One who depends upon or is sustained by another or relies on another for support . One who relies on another for the reasonable necessities of life. See Russell v Johnson, 42 N.E.2d 392, 112 Ind. A pp. 253.

  • Position Diagram

    Diagram showing the possible payoffs from a derivative investment….

  • Plain Vanilla

    A term that refers to a relatively simple derivative financial instrument, usually a swap or other derivative that is issued with standard features….

  • Open Interest

    The total number of derivative contracts traded that not yet been liquidated either by an offsetting derivative transaction or by delivery. Related: liquidation…