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Spotmarkt
Spot market, where financial instruments or commodities are sold for immediate delivery, unlike the futures market where they are sold for delivery at a later date. Wikipedia said a spot market can be...
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Untreue wegen mangelndes Risikomanagement
Breach of trust due to inadequate risk management. The entire former management board of northern German bank HSH Nordbank is on trial in Hamburg for approving a deal in 2007 allegedly without...
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Beibehaltung
Retention. April 2013: After it became known the chair of the supervisory board [Aufsichtsrat] of Germany’s richest and most successful soccer team, Bayern Munich, was under investigation for...
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Aufs falsche Pferd gesetzt
Some insight into why left-leaning governments along the very densely populated Ruhr river, even under an S.P.D. + Green party state coalition government such as that of governor Hannelore Kraft...
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Nach versteckten Risiken prüfen
Investigating/testing/auditing for hidden risks. Update on 05 Dec 2013: Scheduled to take over responsibility for Europe’s largest banks at the end of 2014, the European Central Bank started its latest...
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Europäische Abwicklungsfond für marode Banken
European winding-down fund for rotten banks. After years of discussions, European finance ministers have agreed on some corner points for how they’re going to deal with busted banks: an F.D.I.C.-type...
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Gehaltszulage, Taschengeld, Spesen
“Extra salary,” “pocket money,” and the German word that, depending on how loosely your company defines it, may mean money for expenses, room and board, sundries, fees, entertainment. “Ausser Spesen...
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Flotter
Nimbler. Also, more agile, speedy, swift, brisk, deft, lissome, slippy, nippy and “fly.” Non-bank-owned “mortgage servicing” companies have been buying up mortgage servicing rights from large banks in...
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Den Markt mit Scheinaufträge bewegen, die im letzten Augenblick annuliert werden
“Moving the market with fake orders that are cancelled at the last moment,” one issue Germans have worried about with high-frequency trading. In addition to worrying about H.F.T., Germans have also...
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0.02 Prozent
In September 2013 Italy became the world’s first country to introduce a tax on high-frequency trading. Italy’s government now collects 0.02% on all trades that take place in less time than half a...
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