Corporate finance

A treasury stock or reacquired stock is stock which is also bought back by the issuing company, reducing the amount of outstanding stock on the open market ("open market" including insiders' holdings).

Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company usually are sold to institutional investors that in turn, sell to the general public, on a securities exchange, for the first time.

In finance, a warrant is a security that entitles the holder to buy the underlying stock of the issuing company at a fixed price called exercise price until the expiry date.

Investor Relations (IR) is a strategic management responsibility that is capable of integrating finance, communication, marketing and securities law compliance to enable the most effective two-way communication between a company, the financial community, and other constituencies, which ultimately contributes to a company's securities achieving fair valuation.

A stock swap is a strategy used during a merger or acquisition of a company.

A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition where a company's existing managers acquire a large part or all of the company from either the parent company or from the private owners.

An employee stock option (ESO) is commonly viewed as a complex call option on the common stock of a company, granted by the company to an employee as part of the employee's remuneration package.

The internal rate of return (IRR) or economic rate of return (ERR) is a method of calculating rate of return.

Asset-based lending is any kind of lending secured by an asset.

Unlike traditional factoring, where a supplier wants to finance his receivables, reverse factoring (or supply chain financing) is a financing solution initiated by the ordering party in order to help his suppliers to finance their receivables more easily and at a lower interest rate than what they would normally be offered.

Seedcamp is a First Round Fund.

In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the target) by another (the acquirer, or bidder).

Seeking Alpha is a crowd-sourced content service for financial markets.

In finance, a convertible bond or convertible note or convertible debt (or a convertible debenture if it has a maturity of greater than 10 years) is a type of bond that the holder can convert into a specified number of shares of common stock in the issuing company or cash of equal value.

Funding Options Limited, trading as Funding Options, is an online aggregator for SME finance based in the United Kingdom.

ansarada is a global provider of data rooms for merger and acquisition (M&A) due diligence.

Commercial paper, in the global financial market, is an unsecured promissory note with a fixed maturity of no more than 270 days.

Whitemail, coined as an opposite to blackmail, has several meanings.

As a legal concept, administrative receivership is a procedure under the insolvency laws of a number of common law jurisdictions.

Shareholder value is a business term, sometimes phrased as shareholder value maximization or as the shareholder value model, which implies that the ultimate measure of a company's success is the extent to which it enriches shareholders.

A fraudulent conveyance, or fraudulent transfer, is an attempt to avoid debt by transferring money to another person or company.

BDA Partners is a cross-border investment banking firm, headquartered in New York, with offices in London and across Asia.

An income trust is an investment that may hold equities, debt instruments, royalty interests or real properties.