Venture Capital

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

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

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

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

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

Learn what a margin call stands for in financial terms.

A situation in which one person's gain is another's loss.

A way of calculating compound returns on an investment or savings over a set period of time.