The SEC (also known as Securities and Exchange Commission) is a body set up by the US Congress with the purpose of regulating the security and takeover market. The SEC is needed for the protection of ...
The Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 is the primary law in the United States governing financial markets. The act also brought the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into being.This act only ...
Scalping is a term used in trading to refer to the act of taking very small profits on a trade, and then either trading extremely large amounts or very frequently to magnify profit...
Sales is the division within an investment bank which partners with trading to provide services to clients. People working in Sales will interact with their clients on a daily basi...
An S-4 is a form filed with the SEC relating to a merger or an acquisition or in an exchange offering (trading stocks for stocks or bonds for bonds, usually after a merger)....
S-1's are the forms used in an IPO to notify the SEC of the upcoming public offering of the company. This is a pre-requisite to being listed on any trading exchange (and by extension to comp...
A roadshow is a trip by investment bankers to potential clients, pitching companies and ideas to them in the hope that they invest. It usually involves many different people within the bank, many pitc...
The risk-free rate is a key concept when valuing potential investments and balancing portfolios. It is simply the current interest rate paid on any investment deemed to be 'risk-free' (i.e. US/UK/Germ...
A firm's revolver is a line of short-term credit which the firm can access when it needs short-term funding to pay for operating expenses or one-time transactions. The revolver is always use...
A reverse repo is simply the other side of a repo agreement, i.e. purchasing assets at a given price with an agreement to sell them back at a higher price at some point in the futu...