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Financial Promotion

An effort which is exerted by a bank or financial institution in order to promote business or products. Financial promotions...

Flight To Liquidity

A reallocation tactic whereby banks restructure and rebalance their portfolios toward cash reserves and more liquid investments, especially in fixed-income...

Flight To Quality

At an individual bank's level, it refers to a reallocation tactic whereby banks encountering increased market interest rates tend to...

FTQ

It stands for flight to quality; at an individual bank's level, it refers to a reallocation tactic whereby banks encountering...

Flight To Currency

A situation that occurs when a wide number of depositors lose faith in all banks, or more specifically, all banks...

Information Transformation

A type of transformation whereby banks aim to mitigate the effect of information asymmetry in their relationship with their clients....

Asset Transformation

A type of transformation whereby banks use deposits (mobilized funds) to generate revenue by pooling deposits to make loans. More...

Daily Interest

Interest is considered accrued when it is added to the balance on the account, which accrues on loans such as...

Bad Bank

A financial institution that is set up by a government to absorb toxic assets (bad loans and nonperforming loans) owned by state-guaranteed banks...

Accrual Factor

Typically, the total amount of interest that a depositor receives is calculated by multiplying the applicable floating rate (say, LIBOR) by...