Terms beginning with F

• Face Amount (face Value)
  The value of a bond, note or other security as printed on the document. Throughout the life of a security, its market price will fluctuate ...(Read more)
• Factoring
  The sale of a companys debts to a factor at a discount. A company that is owed money by trade debtors and faces the risk of slow payment or ...(Read more)
• Fair Market Value
  The traded value of an asset agreed by seller and buyer where neither party is desperate to sell and all other terms of the sale are normal ...(Read more)
• Fair Value
  In general, a valuation that is in accordance with standard methodology and is deemed reasonable to all parties involved in a transaction in...(Read more)
• Fallen Angel
  A bond that was issued at a rating of AAA to BBB (investment grade) that has since fallen in rating to BB or below....(Read more)
• Family Income Benefit (family Income Assurance)
  A type of term assurance in which, following the death of the life assured, instalments, rather than a lump sum, are paid to the beneficiary...(Read more)
• Fannie Mae
  See 'Federal National Mortgage Association'....(Read more)
• Far Month
  The month of an option or futures contract that has the latest delivery date....(Read more)
• Fat Cat
  

  A disparaging term used to describe executives who earn high salaries and bonuses.

  Fat cats came in for visceral press criticism so...(Read more)

• Fed
  See Federal Reserve System....(Read more)
• Fed Funds
  Funds deposited by commercial banks at the Federal Reserve banks. To allow those organisations temporarily short of reserve requirements to ...(Read more)
• Federal Agency Security
  In the US, a debt instrument with a high level of safety issued by a federal agency....(Read more)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  In the US, the federal agency that acts as guarantor for funds (of modest size) deposited in member banks....(Read more)
• Federal Gift Tax
  In the US, a federal tax levied on gifted property, money or securities. The tax is payable by the donor and based on fair market value of ...(Read more)
• Federal Insurance Contributions Act
  In the US, the federal law directing employers to withhold a proportion of employees' salaries for payment to the government in order to pro...(Read more)