Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DIRECT LOAN - The William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program. A loan-based financial-aid program simil...
  
  
• DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM - Fixed-rate loans offered by the Ex-Im Bank directly to the foreign buyer to purch...
  
  
• DIRECT MANAGEMENT COSTS - Expenses that can be attributed to the operation of a management firm or depa...
  
  
• DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS (DMA) - Direct Memory Access provides a way to transfer data between devices and m...
  
  
• DIRECT OVERHEAD - A fraction of overhead costs devoted to the manufacturing sector of a firm to cover e...
  
  
• DIRECT PAPER - Commercial paper sold directly by the issuer to investors.
  
  
• DIRECT PARTICIPATION PROGRAM - An investment program enabling investors to directly participate in the ...
  
  
• DIRECT PAYMENT - authorization by the debtor to debit an account upon receipt of an entry issued by a o...
  
  
• DIRECT PLACEMENT - Selling a new issue not by offering it for sale publicly, but by placing it with one...
  
  
• DIRECT PUBLIC OFFERINGS - Offering of new securities to the public directly by an issuer without the as...