Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Product (PRIIP)

The difference between a company's revenue and the cost to produce its goods/services, divided by revenue.

A legal requirement for financial firms to understand exactly who their customers are. Used to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.

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.

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

The famous greenback our friends in the US use as currency.

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

A means of calculating the potential future return on an investment.

Learn what quick ratio stands for in financial terms and how to calculate it.

When a private company sells shares to the public for the first time. Its stock market debut, basically.