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Interest Rate

Interest Rate

The amount a lender charges for lending your money, or a borrower pays you for borrowing your money.

The amount a lender charges for lending your money, or a borrower pays you for borrowing your money.

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Money laundering

A method of moving money obtained illicitly through the financial system so it can be used legally.

Year to Date (YTD)

A period of time that starts with the first day of the current calendar year and ends with today.

Maturity date

The date on which a gilt is redeemed and the gilt holder receives the repayment of the nominal amount and final dividend or coupon payment.

Custodian bank

Learn what a custodian bank is.

Yield to maturity (YTM)

What is yield to maturity and why is it useful?

Capital

Learn what financial capital means

Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

Bed & ISA

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works

Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Product (PRIIP)

An investment where, regardless of its legal form, the amount repayable to the retail investor is subject to fluctuations.

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