What is 'Interest Rate'? | Freetrade Dictionary

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

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Net Asset Value (NAV)

The value of a company's assets relative to the number of shares it has.

Accounting standards

The rules a company follows when preparing financial statements.

W-8BEN Form

Non-US individuals and businesses may have to file this form for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US tax authority.

OEIC

Unique to the UK, these funds pool together money to invest from multiple investors.

Coupon

Also called a dividend, this is the fixed annual interest paid to gilt holders. It’s usually paid in two equal, semi-annual instalments and expressed as a percentage of the nominal value of the gilt.

Account balance

The amount of money a user has stored in a financial repository.

Venture Capital

A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.

NASDAQ

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.

LSE

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

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