Meaning BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS (BIS): An international bank headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, which serves as a forum for monetary cooperation among several European central banks, the Bank of Japan, and the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Founded in 1930 to handle the German payment of World War I reparations, it now monitors and collects data on international banking activity and promulgates rules concerning international bank regulation
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- Definition Bot:
- Examples Shorthand for bought. Antithesis of SL, meaning sold bank for international settlements (bis) definition.
- Definition Break-Even Analysis:
- Examples An analysis of the level of sales at which a project would make zero profit bank for international settlements (bis) explain.
- Definition Balloon Interest:
- Examples In the context of serial bond issues, the elevated coupon rate on bonds with late maturities bank for international settlements (bis) what is.
- Definition Break-Even Payment Rate:
- Examples of an MBS coupon that will produce the same cash flow yield (CFY) as that of a predetermined benchmark MBS coupon. Used to identify for coupons higher than the benchmark coupon the prepayment rate bank for international settlements (bis) meaning.
- Definition Bear Hug:
- Examples arbitrage. Hostile takeover attempt in which the acquirer offers an exceptionally large premium over the market value of the acquiree's share so as to as to squeeze (hug) the target into bank for international settlements (bis) abbreviation.
