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Parking
Definition: Putting money into safe investments such as money market investments while deciding where to invest the money.
Parking Violation
Definition: Often used in risk arbitrage. Illegal holding of stock by a third party, or the financing of such a stock, in which the third party's sole reason for holding the stock is to conceal ownership or control of a raider, thus sidestepping the Williams Act requirements of 5% holding limits. See: Rule 13d.
Partial
Definition: Used in the context of general equities. Trade whose size is only part of the total customer indication/order, usually made to avoid a compromise in price and also to get some business instead of losing the customers inquiry/order to a competitor.
Partial Compensation
Definition: Incomplete payment for the delivery of goods to one party by buying back a certain amount of product from the same party.
Partial Vote
Definition: When only a portion of the total shares in an account is voted. For example, a broker has 1,000 shares and sends out a card to each of four shareholder clients. If only three of the four client cards are returned to the broker, the broker will submit only 3/4ths(750 shares) of the total 1,000 shares to vote. If the fourth card arrives later, an additional vote can be counted.
Participant
Definition: A party of a funding. It usually refers to the lowest rank or smallest level of funding.
Participant Risk
Definition: The risk associated with the credit of the participants and possibility of non-performance.
Participating Buyer/seller
Definition: Used for listed equity securities. (1) Customer willing to buy/sell in line with market. (2) Buyer/seller who goes along with another buyer/seller in a percentage order.
Participating Convertible Preferred Stock
Definition: Preferred stock that can be converted into common stock at the option of the holder. In contrast, to the usual preferred stock, the value of the preferred stock is refunded to the holder. That is, one gets conversion plus the value of the stock.
Participating Dividend
Definition: Dividend received from ownership of participating preferred stock.
Participating Fees
Definition: The portion of total fees in a syndicated credit that go to the participating banks.
Participating GIC
Definition: A guaranteed investment contract whose policyholder is not guaranteed a crediting rate, but instead receives a return based on the actual experience of the portfolio managed by the life insurance company.
Participating Life Insurance Policies
Definition: Life insurance that pays dividends to policyholders depending on the company's success as provided by few claims and profitable underwritings and investments.
Participating Preferred Stock
Definition: Preferred stock that provides the holder with a specified dividend plus the right to additional earnings under specified conditions.
Participation
Definition: The amount of loan or bond issue taken directly from another direct lender or underwriter.
Participation Certificates (PC)
Definition: Used in the context of general equities. Investments representing an interest in a pool of funds or in other instruments, such as foreign securities, that allow participation in the rise or fall of a security or group of securities.
Participation Loan
Definition: A large loan made by a group of lenders, that enables a borrower to obtain financing above the legal lending limit of an individual lender.
Partner
Definition: Business associate who shares equity in a firm.
Partnership
Definition: Shared ownership among two or more individuals, some of whom may, but do not necessarily, have limited liability with respect to obligations of the group. See: General partnership, limited partnership, and master limited partnership.
Partnership Agreement
Definition: A written agreement among partners detailing the terms and conditions of participation in a business ownership arrangement.
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