underwriting contract
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Underwriting Agreement — A contract between a group of investment bankers who form an underwriting group or syndicate, and the issuing corporation of a new securities issue. The underwriting agreement contains the details of the transaction, including the underwriting… … Investment dictionary
underwriting agreement — The contract between a corporation issuing new publicly offered securities and the managing underwriter as agent for the underwriting group. Compare to agreement among underwriters. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary … Financial and business terms
Mortgage underwriting — is the process a lender uses to determine if the risk (especially the risk that the borrower will default[1] ) of offering a mortgage loan to a particular borrower is acceptable. Most of the risks and terms that underwriters consider fall under… … Wikipedia
Medical underwriting — is an insurance term referring to the use of medical or health status information in the evaluation of an applicant for coverage (typically for life or health insurance). As part of the underwriting process, health information may be used in… … Wikipedia
Efficient contract theory — suggests that in a perfectly competitive market, if a contract exists, then it must be efficient due to the survivorship principle. For example, the Initial Public Offering market in the US has an underwriting spread of approximately 7% in the… … Wikipedia
underwriter — One who has incurred all obligation by executing his signature to all instrument, particularly all insurance contract. One who insures another under a contract of policy of insurance. Childs ex rel. Smith v Firemen s Ins. Co. 66 Minn 393, 69 NW… … Ballentine's law dictionary
underwrite — To insure life or property. See insurance. To agree to sell bonds, etc., to the public, or to furnish the necessary money for such securities, and to buy those which cannot be sold. An underwriting contract, aside from its use in insurance, is an … Black's law dictionary
bond broker — See broker; underwriting contract … Ballentine's law dictionary
insurance — /in shoor euhns, sherr /, n. 1. the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one s person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a… … Universalium
Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… … Universalium
