Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• RANS - Revenue anticipation notes.
  
  
• RAP - See: Regulatory accounting procedures
  
  
• RAROC - Refers to the Risk Adjusted Return on Capital.
  
  
• RATCHET - a mechanism to prevent dilution. An anti-dilution clause is a contract clause that protects a...
  
  
• RATCHET FLOATER - A One Way Floating Rate Note (q.v.).
  
  
• RATE - The cost of debt service paid by a borrower or issuer to a lender or investor. The rate is expre...
  
  
• RATE (LOAN RATE) - The return the lender receives for loaning you the money for the mortgage.
  
  
• RATE AFTER INTRO - Rate after Intro is the rate that will apply to the line of credit after the introdu...
  
  
• RATE ANTICIPATION SWAPS - An exchange of bonds in a portfolio for new bonds that will achieve the targe...
  
  
• RATE BASE - The value of a regulated public utility and its operations as defined by its regulators and...