Financial Glossary

Do you need to know what a financial term means, but are not sure? Or perhaps you have seen a definition somewhere but are still left confused and unclear as to what exactly that word means due to an overly complicated answer or explanation that uses lots of jargon.

Here are a list of financial words that are currently explained - if you want a particular word to be outlined in more detail then just let us know!

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Account
Accrual Rate
Acquisition
All Or None
Basis point
Boiler Plate
Bond
Business Plan
Buying Forward
Call Option
Capital adequacy
Caveat venditor
Central bank
Certificate of Deposit
Cheque
Clearing House
Collar
Collateral
Commission
Compound interest
Condominium
Consumer Credit
Convertible
Cooperative
Corporation
Counterfeit
Coupon rate
Covenant
Credit
Credit Card
Credit Limit
Credit Scoring
Creditor
Cross-hedge
Currency future
Current yield
Dealers and brokers
Debit card
Defeasance
Deflation
Delinquency
Deposit
Depression
Deregulation
Derivative
Devaluation
Direct debit
Disbursement
Discounted cash flow
Disinflation
Dividend
Dormat account
Due diligence
Dutch auction
Early withdrawal penalty
Easy money
Efficient Market
Electronic banking
Embezzlement
Escrow
European Central Bank
Exchange rate
Exercise price
Exit fee
Exposure
Factoring
Financial Planning
Finder's Fee
Fixed rate loan
Float
Floor
Foreclosure
Foreign exchange
Frozen account
Futures exchange
Futures Exchanges
Gateway
Gilt
Gilt-edged
Glass-Steagall Act
Going long
Going short
Gold option
Gold standard
Grace period
Gross margin
Guarantor
Half life
Hedging
Home improvement loan
Hyperinflation
I-Bonds
Illiquid
Inconvertible
Index
Inflation
Insolvency
Intangible Asset
Interchange Rate