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Financial intelligence Financial Intelligence (or FININT) is the gathering of information about the financial affairs of entities of interest, to understand their nature and capabilities, and predict their intentions. Generally the term applies in the context of law enforcement and related activities.
Financial intermediary The term financial intermediary may refer to an institution, firm or individual who performs intermediation between two or more parties in a financial context. Typically the first party is a provider of a product or service and the second party is a consumer or customer.
Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 The Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) is a United States federal law enacted in the wake of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. It established the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) to close hundreds of insolvent thrifts and provided funds pay out insurance to their depositors.
Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978 The Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978 is a United States federal law (Public Law 95-630). Among other measures, it established the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (under the terms of Title X of the Act.
Financial literacy Financial literacy is the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions in managing their personal finances. Raising levels of financial literacy is now a focus of government programmes in countries including”Taking Ownership of the Future: The National Strategy for Financial Literacy” US Financial Literacy and Education Commission, 2006, page 113 Australia, Japan, the United States and the UK.
Financial market In economics a financial market is a mechanism that allows people to easily buy and sell (trade) financial securities (such as stocks and bonds), commodities (such as precious metals or agricultural goods), and other fungible items of value at low transaction costs and at prices that reflect efficient markets.
Financial mismanagement Financial mismanagement is management that, deliberately or not, is handled in a way that can be characterised as "wrong, bad, careless, inefficient or incompetent" and that will reflect negatively upon the financial standing of a business or individual.
Financial Management Advisor The Financial Management Advisor (FMA) is a "made in Canada" professional designation of the Canadian Securities Institute (CSI), the official educator of the Canadian securities industry. The FMA is a personal financial planning designation similar to the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation.
Financial Management Service The Financial Management Service (or FMS) is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury and provides several financial services for the federal government. These services include centralized payment, collection, and reporting services, oversight of a daily cash flow of nearly $58 billion into and out of federal accounts, disbursement of more than $1.
Financial Management Standard The Financial Management Standard 1997 (also known as the FMS)is a state law] of the [[Queensland Government empowered by the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 (Qld)Its primary purpose is to provide the policies and principles to be observed in financial management, including planning, performance management, internal control, and corporate management within Queensland Government.
Financial Mirror The Financial Mirror is the top-selling daily business newspaper in Cyprus. The main paper is published in English but a supplement in Greek (called Chrima & Agora, Xρήμα & Aγορά) is also included.
Financial News and Daily Record The Financial News and Daily Record is a daily financial newspaper published in Jacksonville, Florida by Bailey Publishing and Communications, Inc. The Financial News and Daily Record began publication in 1912.
Financial News Network The Financial News Network was a television network that operated throughout the United States throughout the 1980s. The channel, begun in November 1981 as an offshoot of original "business television" station KWHY in Los Angeles, was based in nearby Santa Monica, California.
Financial plan A financial plan is a written analysis of an individual's financial circumstances developed by a financial planner, in light of the individual's goals, resources, and current tax law, investment options, and insurance needs.
Financial planner A Financial Planner or Personal Financial Planner is a practising professional who helps people to deal with various personal financial issues through proper planning, which include but not limited to these major areas: tertiary education planning, retirement planning, investment planning, risk management and insurance planning, tax planning, estate planning and business succession planning (for business owners). The work engaged in by this professional is commonly known as personal financial planning.
Financial planning (business) Financial Planning is the task of determining how a business will afford to achieve its strategic goals and objectives. Usually, a company creates a Financial Plan immediately after the vision and objectives have been set.
Financial Post The Financial Post was a Canadian business newspaper, which published from 1907 to 1998. In 1998, the publication was folded into the new National Post, although the name Financial Post has been retained as the banner for that paper's business section and also lives on in the Posts monthly business magazine, Financial Post Business.
Financial quote A Financial Quotation refers to specific Market data relating to a security or commodity. While the term quote specifically refers to the bid or ask of an instrument, it may be more generically used to relate to the last price which the security traded at ("last sale").
Financial rand The South African financial rand system was abolished with effect from March 13 1995. The financial rand system was instituted on September 1 1985 in an attempt to control the large outflows of capital from South Africa at that time.
Financial ratio Financial ratios are formed from two or more numbers taken from the financial statements of businesses. The numbers may be taken from the Balance sheet or the Income statement and combined in any number of combinations.
Financial regulation Financial regulations are a form of regulation or supervision, which subjects financial institutions to certain requirements, restrictions and guidelines, aiming to maintain the integrity of the financial system. This may be handled by either a government or non-government organization.
Financial reinsurance Financial Reinsurance, also known as 'fin re', is a form of reinsurance which is focused more on capital management than on risk transfer. In the non-life segment of the insurance industry this class of transactions is often referred to as finite reinsurance.
Financial risk management Financial risk management is the practice of creating value in a firm by using financial instruments to manage exposure to risk. Similar to general risk management, financial risk management requires identifying the sources of risk, measuring risk, and plans to address them.
Financial Reporting Council The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is a unified, independent regulator with a mission of promoting confidence in corporate reporting and governance in the United Kingdom. The FRC incorporates six operating bodies:
Financial Reporting Review Panel The Financial Reporting Review Panel (FRRP) was established in 1990 as a subsidiary of the Financial Reporting Council. The FRRP seeks to ensure that the provision of financial information by public and large private companies complies with relevant accounting requirements such as the Companies Act 1985.
Financial secretary Financial secretary is an administrative and executive position within the governance of a corporation, private or public organization, small group or other body with financial assets. A financial secretary is usually the most visible person in a labor or trade union.
Financial statements Financial statements (or financial reports) are formal records of a business' financial activities. These statements provide an overview of a business' profitability and financial condition in both short and long term.
Financial Sanctions Unit The Financial Sanctions Unit (official webpage) of the Bank of England administers financial sanctions in the United Kingdom on behalf of HM Treasury. It has been in operation since before 1993 when it applied sanctions against the Government of Libya..
Financial Secretary (Hong Kong) Financial Secretary (), often abbreviated as FS, is a position of the Hong Kong Government. The FS assists the Chief Executive (Governor before the transfer of sovereignty) in supervising the policy bureaux as directed by the CE, mostly finance and economy-related, and plays a key role in ensuring harmonisation in policy formulation and implementation.
Financial Secretary to the Treasury Financial Secretary to the Treasury is a junior Ministerial post in the UK Treasury. It is the 4th most significant Ministerial role within the Treasury after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and the Paymaster General.
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000) is an act of the United Kingdom parliament which created the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a regulator for insurance, investment business and banking.
Financial Services and Markets Tribunal The UK Financial Services and Markets Tribunal is an independent judicial body established under Section 132 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, which hears references arising from decision notices issued by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Financial Services Agency The Financial Services Agency is a Japanese government organization responsible for overseeing banking, securities and exchange, and insurance in order to ensure the stability of the financial system of Japan. The agency reports to the Minister of Financial Services.
Financial Services Authority The Financial Services Authority ("FSA") is an independent non-departmental public body and quasi-judicial body that regulates the financial services industry in the United Kingdom. Its main office is based in Canary Wharf, London, with another office in Edinburgh.
Financial Services Forum The Financial Services Forum is a non-partisan financial and economic policy organization comprised of the CEOs of 21 of the largest and most diversified financial services institutions doing business in the United States. It has been called “perhaps the country’s most powerful trade association” by TIME Magazine.
Financial Stability Institute The Financial Stability Institute (FSI), is one of the bodies hosted by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) at its headquarters in [Basel]. Established in 1999 by the BIS and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, its primary role is to improve the co-ordination between national Bank Regulators through holding seminars and acting as a clearing house for information on regulatory practice.
Financial Times The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink broadsheet paper. The periodical is printed in 23 cities: London, Leeds, Dublin, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Milan, Madrid, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Washington DC, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Dubai, Johannesburg and Istanbul.
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (aka FINTRAC) gathers, analyzes, assesses, and discloses financial intelligence. Originally created in July 2000 to counter suspected money laundering, FINTRAC's mandate was expanded in December 2001 to provide CSIS with information on terrorist financing that threaten the security of Canada.
Financier Financier (IPA: /ˌfi nãn ˈsjei/) is an elegant term for a person who handles large sums of money, usually involving money lending, financing projects, large-scale investing, or large-scale money management. The term is French, and derives from finance or payment.
Financier (pastry) A financier, sometimes called a friand, is a type of pastry in French cuisine. The financier is a light tea cake, similar to sponge cake, and usually contains almond flour, crushed or ground almonds, or almond flavoring.
Finast Finast was a retail supermarket brand in the northeastern United States until being absorbed by Edwards and its Dutch parent Royal Ahold in the mid-1990s. Its name was an acronym for "First National Stores Inc.
Finasteride Finasteride (marketed as Proscar, Propecia, Fincar, Finpecia, Finax, Finast, Finara, Finalo, Prosteride) is an antiandrogen which acts by inhibiting 5-alpha reductase, the enzyme that converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. It is used as a treatment in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in low doses, and in prostate cancer in higher doses.
Finau Tabakaucoro Adi Finau Tamari Tabakaucoro is a Fijian politician, who served as Assistant Minister for Women, Culture, and Social Welfare in the interim Cabinet formed by Laisenia Qarase in the wake of the Fiji coup of 2000. She held office till an elected government took power in September 2001.
Finavia Finavia (name in Finnish: Ilmailulaitos Finavia, in Swedish: Luftfartsverket Finavia), the former Finnish Civil Aviation Administration, is the managing body of 25 airports located in Finland. Finavia maintains the airport network as well as the navigation system.
Finborough Theatre Founded in 1980, the Finborough Theatre in London's Earls Court area presents new British writing, UK premieres of overseas drama (particularly from the United States, Canada, and Ireland), music theatre, and rarely performed rediscovered plays from the last 150 years.
Fincastle competition The International Fincastle Competition is a contest of skills between the air forces of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. During the competition, crews compete in anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, and intelligence and surveillance gathering.
Fincastle County, Virginia Fincastle County was created in 1772 from Botetourt County, whose boundaries extended all the way to the Mississippi River. Fincastle County was abolished in 1776 and divided into three new counties - Montgomery, Washington, and Kentucky (which later became the state of Kentucky).
Find A New Way "Find A New Way" is the second single from Too Young to Fight It the debut full-length album by American electronic/dance band Young Love. The single was recorded in New York City, New York and features songwriting, production and vocals from musician Dan Keyes.
Find Me Guilty Find Me Guilty is a 2006 comedy-drama based on the longest Mafia trial in American history. Mobster Giacomo DiNorscio, also known as "Fat Jack" (played by Vin Diesel), faces a series of charges (even though he has a previous 30 year conviction) but decides to stand trial instead of ratting out his family and associates.
Find-a-drug Find-a-Drug (often abbreviated as 'FAD') is a not for profit distributed computing project which was set up by Treweren Consultants, the company who developed the THINK software. Find-a-Drug aims to run a series of projects in parallel addressing a number of diseases which have a major impact on health.
Findemna In Irish mythology the three Findemna of Finn Eamna (variously interpreted as "fair triplets" or "three fair ones of Emain Macha") were three sons of the High King of Ireland, Eochaid Feidlech. Their names were Bres, Nár and Lothar.
Finder (comics) Finder is a science fiction comic book series written and illustrated by Carla Speed McNeil, beginning in 1996. It is published by McNeil's imprint Lightspeed Press, which has also collected most of it in trade paperback volumes.
Finder's fee A finder's fee is the compensation given to an intermediary in a business transaction. Usually, there is a casual relationship between the one party and the intermediary (the finder), another relationship between the finder and the second party, and the two parties of the transaction would not have met if it weren't for the work of the finder.
Findern Flower The Findern Flower, also known as the "Poet's Daffodil", was brought back from the crusades by Sir Geoffrey de Fynderne. It blossoms in certain gardens in the village and has become an emblem of the village of Findern.
Finderne (NJT station) Finderne or Manville-Finderne was a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The station, which formerly housed a small building between the tracks, had been without facilities for some time prior to its closure.
Finders keepers Finders, keepers is the doctrine that says when something is unowned or abandoned, whoever finds it can claim it (from an old Scottish saying "Finders keepers, losers weepers"). Of particular difficulty, of course, is how best to define when exactly something is unowned or abandoned, which can lead to legal or ethical disputes.
Finders Keepers (computer game) Finders Keepers is a computer game written by David Jones and the first game in the Magic Knight series. It was published on the Mastertronic label for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 64 in 1985.
Finderscope A Finderscope is a small auxiliary telescope mounted atop the main astronomical telescope and pointed in the same direction. The finderscope usually has a much smaller magnification than the main telescope can provide and therefore can see more of the sky.
Findexa Findexa is one of Norway's largest companies in the business of media and information. The company offers services in areas such as user- and advertiser-paid directories, database procurement and electronic media products.
Findhorn Ecovillage Findhorn Ecovillage is based at The Park, in Moray, Scotland near the village of FindhornLocal relations between the Findhorn Foundation and the village of Findhorn have occasionally foundered over inconsiderate use of the word 'Findhorn' to mean either the former or the Ecovillage. See for example Walker (1994), Talk:Findhorn Foundation and also Findhorn (disambiguation)..
Findhorn Foundation The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972 to act as a focal point for the work of the community that grew up around Eileen and Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean near Findhorn, in Moray, Scotland, from 1962 onwards.
Finding aid Finding aids are indexes used to catalog detailed information about collections within an archive. They are used by researchers to determine whether information within a collection is relevant to their research.
Finding Darwin's God Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution is a 2000 book by the American cell biologist and Roman Catholic Kenneth R. Miller wherein he argues that Darwinism doesn't contradict religious faith.
Finding Forrester Finding Forrester is a 2000 movie, written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant, about a teenager, Jamal Wallace, played by Rob Brown, who is accepted into a prestigious private high school. He also befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester, played by Sean Connery.
Finding Moon Finding Moon is a novel written in 1996 by Tony Hillerman. The novel is based on an idea that Hillerman had developed and intended to set in post-World War II Europe; in fact, many characters are named after soldiers he knew while serving.
Finding Nemo Finding Nemo is an Academy Award-winning computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It was released in the United States/Canada on May 30, 2003, in Australia on August 28, 2003, and in the UK on October 10, 2003.
Finding Serenity Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly is a compilation of essays edited by Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. The book was released in late 2004 following the cancellation of the television show Firefly.
Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, and Critics The second volume of “franchise” books on contemporary American speculative fiction film franchises edited by Matthew Kapell, this edited volume covers the Star Wars franchise with multiple essays from scholars and others. Topics include the normal class, race, gender, philosophy and politics rubric of such volumes.
Finding the Rhythms Finding the Rhythms is Hot Water Music's first full-length album, released in 1996 by Toybox Records and No Idea Records. It is a collection of some of their earliest recordings, which appear on various other releases.
Findlay Market Findlay Market is Ohio’s oldest continuously-operated public market and one of Cincinnati’s most famous institutions. Founded in 1852, The market is located north of downtown Cincinnati in Over-the-Rhine, a historic neighborhood known for its dense concentration of Italianate architecture.
Findon, Aberdeenshire Findon or Finnan (Gaelic: Fionndan), Scotland is a fishing village 8 miles south of Aberdeen, famous for originating the smoked haddock known as Finnan haddie. The most interesting part of Findon is the Moor which has a number of paths through many of which run along the Cliffs.
Fine art Fine art refers to arts that are "concerned with beauty or which appealed to taste" (SOED 1991). The term was first attested in 1767, as a translation from the French term beaux arts and designates a limited number of visual art forms, including painting, sculpture, architecture and printmaking.
Fine art photography Fine art photography, sometimes simply called art photography, refers to high-quality archival photographic prints of pictures that are created to fulfill the creative vision of an individual professional. Such prints are reproduced, usually in limited editions, in order to be sold to dealers, collectors or curators, rather than mass reproduced in advertising or magazines.
Fine bubble diffusers Fine bubble diffusers are a pollution control technology. They produce a plethora of very small air bubbles which rise slowly from the floor of a wastewater treatment plant or sewage treatment plant aeration tank and provide substantial and efficient mass transfer of oxygen to the water.
Fine By Me Fine By Me is an organization in the United States with the mission to give voice to friends and supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The organization developed a project to print T-shirts with the words "gay?
Fine Cotton Fine Cotton was an Australian thoroughbred horse which was at the centre of a substitution scam ( also known as a ring-in) which occurred on August 18, 1984 in the Commerce Novice (2nd division) Handicap over 1500 metres at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane, Queensland. Although there have been many ring-ins and other illegal scams in Australian racing, the Fine Cotton scandal is infamous in Australia due to the involvement of some of racing's elite.
Fine Cut: KCET's Festival of Student Film Fine Cut: KCET's Festival of Student Film is a television program that airs on the California television station KCET and is now in its tenth season. The program features the work of film students from various SoCal institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts, Loyola Marymount, UCLA, American Film Institute, Otis College of Art and Design, and USC.
Fine flounder The Fine flounder (Paralichthys adspersus) is a species of large-tooth flounder native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, along the continental shelf from the coast of Ecuador in the north to the coast of Peru in the south.
Fine Fare Fine Fare was the name of a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom until the late 1980s. It was famous for its Yellow Pack budget own-label range, probably one of the first store sub brands or tertiary brand names in the UK.
Fine grain master positive A fine grain master positive is a photographic term. It is also known as a fine grain master or fine grain and is a high-definition black-and-white intermediate positive image generated from a negative for the purpose of creating additional duplicate negatives.
Fine Gael Fine Gael (IPA: , though often anglicized to (approximate English translation: Family of the Irish) and officially, Fine Gael - The United Ireland Party, is the second largest political party in Ireland, presently forming the largest opposition party in the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament), and claims a membership of over 34,000.
Fine Gael leadership election, 2002 The 2002 Fine Gael leadership election began in May 2002, when Michael Noonan resigned as party leader due to the party's poor performance in the 2002 general election. Noonan had only been party leader for little over fifteen months.
Fine Guidance Sensor The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) is an interferometric instrument on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that provides high-precision pointing information as input to the observatory's attitude control systems.
Fine chemicals In drug manufacture, fine chemicals are pure, single chemical substances that are produced by chemical reactions. Examples of fine chemicals are intermediates for drug production and bulk active pharmaceutical ingredients ready to be compounded with inert pigments, solvents and excipients and made into dosage forms.
Fine Living Fine Living is an American speciality television channel dedicated to programs about lifestyle, but not just lifestyle programs, programs that help viewers pursue their passions, realize their dreams and maximize their precious time. Shows range from exotic adventure travel, to personal space enhancement, to techniques for recharging soul and body.
Fine motor skill Fine motor skills can be defined as small muscle movements which occur in the fingers, in coordination with the eyes. The abilities, which involve the use of hands, develop over time, starting with primitive gestures such as grabbing at objects to more precise activities that involve precise hand-eye coordination.
Fine topology (potential theory) In mathematics, in the field of potential theory, the fine topology is a natural topology for setting the study of subharmonic functions. In the earliest studies of subharmonic functions, only smooth functions were considered, namely those for which Delta u ge 0, where Delta is the Laplacian.
Fine Wine Brokers Fine Wine Brokers is a retail wine store located in Lincoln Square, Chicago. They feature wines from around the world but are also known for their organic selection and have been rated "one of the seven best wine clubs in the country" by Food & Wine magazine, and the "best place to find a diverse selection of interesting organic bottlings.
Fine Young Cannibals Fine Young Cannibals was an English band best known for its 1989 hits "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing". Formed in Birmingham, England, by vocalist Roland Gift and former The Beat members David Steele and Andy Cox.
Fine-tuned universe The term fine-tuned universe refers to the idea that conditions that allow life in the universe can only occur with the tightly restricted values of the universal physical constants, and that small changes in these constants would correspond to a very different universe, not likely conducive to the establishment and development of matter, astronomical structures, or life as it is presently known.
Fine-tuning In theoretical physics, fine-tuning refers to circumstances when the parameters of a model must be adjusted very precisely in order to agree with observations. Theories requiring fine-tuning are regarded as problematic in the absence of a known mechanism to explain why the parameters happen to have precisely the needed values.
Finegand Finegand is a small village located in eastern Perth and Kinross, Scotland and also refers historically to the portion of lands surrounding the village. Finegand is located in Glen Shee and encompasses the lands east of the Shee Water adjacent to a burn which joins it about 4 miles below the Spittal and about 18 miles north of Blairgowrie.
Finer Feelings "Finer Feelings" is a song by Kylie Minogue. It was the final release from Let's Get to It and was actually planned as the follow-up to "Word is Out", but was held back after the release of "If You Were with Me Now.
Finescale Finescale is a term related to a specific subset in the hobby of building scale models. The central idea of finescale modeling is that models should be accurate representations of their prototypes with as few compromises as possible.
Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature The Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature () is an anthology of poetry, odes, songs and writings from the Liang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties era. The book was compiled by a team of officers headed by Li Fang under an imperial order from 982 to 986.
Fineview Fineview is a neighborhood on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's North Side. It has zip codes of both 15212 and 15214, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 6 (North Shore and Downtown Neighborhoods) and District 1 (North Central Neighborhoods).
Finfolk In Orkney folklore, Finfolk are sorcerous shapeshifters of the sea, the dark mysterious race from Finfolkaheem who regularly make an amphibious journey from the depths of the Finfolk ocean home to the Orkney Islands. They wade, swim or sometimes row upon the Orkney shores in the spring and summer months, searching for human captives.
Fingal Head (New South Wales) Fingal Head (Fingal Head page at Geoscience Australia), often just called Fingal, is a town and headland in Australia on the New South Wales far north coast in Tweed Shire Council, near the border with Queensland and the Gold Coast.
Fingal's Cave Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, part of a National Nature Reserve owned by the National Trust for Scotland.National Trust for Scotland: Fingal's Cave It is formed entirely from hexagonally-jointed basalt columns, similar in structure to (and part of the same ancient lava flow as) the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.
Finger (fluid measure) A finger of a beverage varies with each individual and the diameter of the container. It is generally accepted as the amount of liquid one must remove (usually by drinking) to lower the level of the liquid by the width of one finger.

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