International Financial Encyclopaedia
Welcome to the world's only interactive Financial Encyclopaedia. This encyclopaedia is designed to be used in conjunction with our Guide to Management and Technology and our other Finance information bases.
There is a guide to the icons used in the encyclopaedia.
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International Financial Encyclopaedia
Tables of Contents:
Numbers and Symbols A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Individual Volumes:
Numbers and Symbols A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Dictionary of Management and Technology
Numbers and Symbols A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Key to icons:
= Company or Organisation includes technology suppliers,industry organisations, or terms which describe companies or organisations. The icon used is a a picture of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) building.
= Fact or commonly used financial term which is not technology related. Useful general information is also included. Examples include international characters and calenders, abbreviations and acronyms.
= Financial Product from mainstream banking products such as retail accounts to sophisticated derivative products. The icon used is a package because derivative products are often packages of simpler financial products which are being combined in innovative ways.
= Financial Engineering term used in the process of constructing financial products or in discussions about those products.The icon used is a picture of the space shuttle because the people who engineer financial derivative products are often called rocket scientists because of their use of complex financial modelling techniques.
= Market or Country includes stock exchanges, country information, political groupings and bodies.The icon used is a section of the globe and represents the hundreds of countries and markets which this encyclopaedia covers.
= Standard term which is accepted by a major standards setting body such as the ISO (International Standards Organisation). Many of the terms also include the specification of the length and type of the data allowed. For example:
- 3n means that the data is a three digit numeric code.
- 35x means that the data may be up to 35 (alphanumeric) characters long.
- 5*35x means that the data may be up to five fields of up to 35 (alphanumeric) characters long.
= Technology Term used by technology specialists in the financial industry which does not explicitly relate to financial engineering activities.
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