Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• GLASS-STEAGALL ACT - Federal legislation passed in 1933 that separated investment and commercial bankin...
  
  
• GLBA - See Gramm-Leach Bliley Act of 1999.
  
  
• GLOBAL BOND - a bond issued and traded outside the country whose currency it is denominated in, and out...
  
  
• GLOBAL BONDS - Bonds designed to qualify for immediate trading in any domestic capital market and in th...
  
  
• GLOBAL COORDINATOR - The lead underwriter in simultaneous public offering in several countries or on se...
  
  
• GLOBAL CUSTODY - a term used within the investment banking industry in defining securities/monetary ins...
  
  
• GLOBAL DEBT FACILITY - A debt issuance facility through which U.S. dollar and foreign currency debt sec...
  
  
• GLOBAL DEPOSITARY RECEIPT - A receipt denoting ownership of foreign-based corporation stock shares whic...
  
  
• GLOBAL DEPOSITARY RECEIPT (GDR) - In order to raise money in several markets, some corporations offer s...
  
  
• GLOBAL DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS - receipts evidencing ownership in the underlying shares of a foreign compan...