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Book Building

A technique used to place securities on the market. It is the process that involves  collection of information about investors’...

Reverse Book Building

A book building that is used by an issuer to buy back shares from existing shareholders in the market. The...

Accelerated Book Building

A book building that completes in a very short period of time (e.g., a few hours). Book-building is a technique...

Simple Order Book

An order book that only contains the basic components: sizes and prices. It is a simple electronic list of buy...

Order Book Size

The number of orders in the order book of a security that come up immediately after the auction. Each exchange...

Buy The Book

A market order to buy all shares available (the book) of a specific security from one specialist and all other...

Book

A list that is maintained by a specialist in order to track unfilled buy and sell orders. A specialist can…

Warehousing

The act of managing a portfolio of a specific type of financial instrument/ product. For example, warehousing of swaps refers...

Running a Book

The act of managing a portfolio of a specific type of financial instrument/ product. For example, running a book of...

Order Book

A list of buy (bid) and sell orders (offer) for a security or financial instrument that a trading venue (e.g.,...