Term of the day
disruption
Being “disruptive”, when expressed by a start-up’s founder, refers to the act of forcing one’s way into a niche, bludgeoning the existing competition with a new method of delivering a service and generally injecting greater efficiency into something people have done or used since time immemorial.
In this sense, the word “disruption” can be paired with any industry and the start-up team will sound plausible, such has been the effect of the internet in scaring corporate bosses in even the most low...
Basics of Finance
- AERAnnual equivalent rate; a rate of interest which shows how much interest you receive from an investment in one year if each interest payment...
- amortisation
- capital expenditure/spending
- Bank of England
- bonds
- budget deficit
- capital ratio
- carbon trading
- Chapter 11
- commercial bank
- recession
- corporate bond
- environmental fund
- credit squeeze
- derivatives
- inventory cycle
- Dow Jones
- earnings per share EPS
- The Fed
- externality
- EBITDA
- Economic and Monetary Union EMU
- free market
- price/earnings ratio
- futures contract
- gross domestic product
- government bonds
- investment bank
- like-for-like sales
- market study
- Moody's
- operating profit
- pension fund
- pre-tax profit
- preferred share
- procurement
- purchasing power parity PPP
- rights issue
- share price
- shareholder
- taxpayer dollars
- tier one capital
- tier two capital
- Treasury
- underwriting power
- universal bank
- Wall Street
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Buzz Words
- AbenomicsAbenomics is the name given to a suite of measures introduced by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe after his December 2012 re-election to...
- crowdfunding
- crowdsourcing
- Dodd-Frank Act
- ESG
- flash trading
- Glass-Steagall Act
- grey dollar
- hawk
- inflation targeting
- Keynesian economics
- microfinance
- MMO massively multiplayer online
- pregnant presenteeism
- sukuk (Islamic bonds)
- spread betting
- sustainable development
- too big to fail
- toxic assets
- Volcker rule
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In the News
- cyber crimeCyber crime involves activities like raiding bank accounts and stealing information from companies. ExampleIntel employee Biswamohan Pani...
- financial regulation
- dark pools
- Financial Policy Committee FPC
- IMF
- insider trading
- IPO
- Libor
- monetary transmission
- net neutrality
- peak oil
- Serious Fraud Office
- sovereign bonds
- strategic alliance
- proprietary trading
- Yellen Index
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