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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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Custodian bank

Learn what a custodian bank is.

Zero coupon bonds

What is a zero coupon bond?

Venture Capital Trust (VCT)

A listed company run by a fund manager, investing mainly in private companies.e.

Leverage

A method of trading using borrowed money that usually involves a very high level of risk.

Xetra

A trading venue operated by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Money weighted rate of return

Learn what Money Weighted Rate of Return or MWRR stands for in finance.

Bond

Learn what a bond is

Balance sheet

A summary of a company's finances, including its assets, liabilities and shareholder equity.

Nominal amount

The face value of a gilt. It represents the amount that will be repaid to the holder at maturity and is also used to calculate the dividend or coupon payment.

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