Stockbroker
What is a Stockbroker? A stockbroker is a regulated representative of the financial market who enables the buying and selling of securities on behalf of financial institutions, investor clients, and firms. A stockbroker is also called a registered representative or a broker. The trading or purchase or sale of stocks on the national stock exchanges...
Current Face
What is Current Face? Current face – or current face value – refers to the face value of a mortgage-backed security (MBS) at a given point in time. Current face value is the same thing as current par value or current nominal value. It denotes the outstanding principal value of an MBS – the principal...
Icahn Lift
What is the Icahn Lift? The “Icahn lift” refers to the effect on the share price of a company that American businessman Carl Icahn buys into. Due to Mr. Icahn’s prominent reputation of being an activist investor, when he accumulates shares in a company, the market expectation is that he will act as an activist...
Exchange Control
What is Exchange Control? Exchange controls are government-imposed controls and restrictions on private transactions conducted in foreign currency. The government’s major aim of exchange control is to manage or prevent an adverse balance of payments position on national accounts. It involves ordering all or part of foreign exchange received by a country into a common...
Excess Reserves
What are Excess Reserves? Excess reserves refer to the cash held by a bank or other financial institution above the reserve requirement that an authority sets. The amount of excess reserves is equal to the total reserves reduced by the required reserves. Holding excess reserves leads to the opportunity cost of investing the cash for...
