Contagion effects
Unless otherwise defined, the risk of systemic risk arising from the transmission of difficulties at a failing institution to other banks and to the financial market as a whole. – Direct contagion effects arise…
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Advance payment guarantee
The seller’s bank provides an (abstract) promise of payment in favor of the buyer for the refund of a down payment (advance payment) made in the event of a breach of contract. The amount…
Arrival fee, reception fee
In earlier times, a tax in cash was levied on persons who wished to settle within a (city) municipality or territory as immigrants, also called Anmanngeld, Annehmungsgeld, Ansässengeld, Bürgergeld, Einstandsgeld, Einzugsgeld, Nachbargeld, Rezeptionsgeld and…
Principle of equivalence
An authoritative concept in the philosophy of money. It means that money represents a pure form of exchangeability: it expresses the side, the property of things, which makes them suitable for economic exchange. Money…
Working Group on Credit Registers
Working group within the Banking Supervision Committee with the aim of bringing about an exchange of data between the countries’ central credit registers (initially in the euro area) and harmonizing the corresponding measurement procedures.…
Arrest money and carceraticum (attachment fee)
Formerly, in the course of compulsory enforcement (CH: Betreibung; compulsory enforcement) of a claim, a payment to be made in advance to the authority by a creditor in the application for arrest when the…
Arrosion and arrosion (partial payment)
In the case of government bonds in particular, the postponement of repayment, compensated by an increase in the interest rate on the paper. – A partial payment. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by…
Asian Currency Unit, ACU (also referred to in German)
Planned clearing currency (initially planned as a basket currency similar to the ECU) of Asian countries as a precursor to a later single currency in Asia, at least within the Asian Free Trade Area.…
Assay stamp (also mostly used in German; assay = examination and determination as to weight, quality, measure, etc.)
Stamp, seal of authenticity (hallmark) on bars of precious metals in general and gold bars in particular (a stamped impression on the surface of a precious metals bar that indicates the producer, serial number,…
Assignats (assignats)
Paper money put into circulation in France in 1789, the year of the Revolution; it was supposed to be covered by the sale of the church’s expropriated properties or to certify claims to them.…