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Creditworthiness
Definition: The condition in which the risk of default on a debt obligation by that entity is deemed low.
Creeping Expropriation
Definition: The act of a government squeezing a project by taxes, regulation, access, or changes in law.
Creeping Tender Offer
Definition: The process by which a group attempting to circumvent certain provisions of the Williams Act gradually acquires shares of a target company in the open market.
CREST
Definition: CREST is CrestCo's real-time settlement system for UK and Irish shares and other corporate securities. CrestCo has provided settlement systems for government bonds and money market instruments in the UK since 1990.
Crisp Sets
Definition: The fuzzy set term for traditional set theory. That is, an object either belongs to a set, or does not.
Critical Levels
Definition: Values of control parameters where the nature of a nonlinear dynamic system changes. The system can bifurcate, or make the transition from stable to turbulent behavior. An example is the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Crop Year
Definition: The time period from one harvest to the next, varying according to the commodity (e.g., July 1 to June 30 for wheat; September 1 to August 31 for soybeans).
Cross
Definition: Securities transaction in which the same broker acts as agent for both sides of the trade; a legal practice only if the broker first offers the securities publicly at a price higher than the bid.
Cross Guarantee
Definition: A provision of the FDI Act added by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) that allows the FDIC to recover part of its costs of liquidating or assisting a troubled insured institution by assessing those costs to the remaining solvent insured institutions which are commonly controlled as defined in the statute. When the FDIC acts to protect its interests under this provision, the assessment can result in a liquidity strain or, in some cases, the immediate insolvency of an affiliated bank.
Cross Hedging
Definition: Applies to derivative products. Hedging with a futures contract that is different from the underlying being hedged. Use of a hedging instrument different from the security being hedged. Hedging instruments are usually selected to have the highest price correlation to the underlying.
Cross Rate
Definition: In foreign exchange, the price of one currency in terms of another currency in the market of a third country. For example, the exchange rate between Japanese yen and Euros would be considered a cross rate in the US market.
Cross Rates
Definition: The exchange rate between two currencies expressed as the ratio of two foreign exchange rates that are both expressed in terms of a third currency. Foreign exchange rate between two currencies other than the US dollar, the currency in which most exchanges are usually quoted.
Cross Trading
Definition: Offsetting or noncompetitive match of the buy order of one customer against the sell order of another, a practice that is permissible only when executed in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act, CFTC regulations, and rules of the exchange.
Cross-border Bonds
Definition: Bonds that firms issue in the international market.
Cross-border Factoring
Definition: Concluding a transaction by a network of factors across borders. The exporter's factor can contact correspondent factors in other countries to handle the collection of accounts receivable.
Cross-border Risk
Definition: Describes the volatility of returns on international investments caused by events associated with a particular country as opposed to events associated solely with a particular economic or financial agent.
Cross-Collateral
Definition: An agreement among project participants to pool collateral, to allow recourse to each other's collateral.
Cross-default
Definition: A provision under which default on one debt obligation triggers default on another debt obligation.
Cross-Hedge
Definition: Hedging a cash market position in a futures or option contract for a different but price-related commodity.
Cross-holdings
Definition: The holding by one corporation of shares in another firm. One needs to allow for cross-holdings when aggregating capitalizations of firms. Ignoring cross-holdings leads to double-counting.
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