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Barclaycard (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l i k ɑːr d,-l eɪ-/; stylised as barclaycard) is a brand for credit cards of Barclays PLC. It is considered as the United Kingdom’s first and now biggest credit card provider with 5 million accounts.
The following contains a list of trading losses of the equivalent of US$100 million or higher. Trading losses are the amount of principal losses in an account. [1] Because of the secretive nature of many hedge funds and fund managers, some notable losses may never be reported to the public.
Death spiral financing is the result of a badly structured convertible financing used to fund primarily small cap companies in the marketplace, causing the company's stock to fall dramatically, which can lead to the company's ultimate downfall.
Barclays PLC (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l i z /, occasionally /-l eɪ z /) is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England.Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services.
In finance, securities lending or stock lending refers to the lending of securities by one party to another.. The terms of the loan will be governed by a "Securities Lending Agreement", [1] which requires that the borrower provides the lender with collateral, in the form of cash or non-cash securities, of value equal to or greater than the loaned securities plus an agreed-upon margin.
Fragmented financial regulation contributed to irresponsible lending in the years prior to the crisis. In the eurozone, each country had its own financial regulations, which allowed financial institutions to exploit gaps in monitoring and regulatory responsibility to resort to loans that were high-yield but very risky.
Data Explorers is a privately owned financial data and software company headquartered in London, UK, with offices in New York, US, Edinburgh and Hong Kong.The company provides financial benchmarking information to the Securities lending Industry and short-side intelligence to the Investment Management community. [2]
The term "contagion" was first introduced in July 1997, when the currency crisis in Thailand quickly spread throughout East Asia and then on to Russia and Brazil.Even developed markets in North America and Europe were affected, as the relative prices of financial instruments shifted and caused the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a large U.S. hedge fund.