Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In 1791, Congress chartered the First Bank of the United States. The bank, which was jointly owned by the federal government and private stockholders, was a nationwide commercial bank which served as the bank for the federal government and operated as a regular commercial bank acting in competition with state banks.
Rental agreement. A rental agreement is a contract of rental, usually written, between the owner of a property and a renter who desires to have temporary possession of the property; it is distinguished from a lease, which is more typically for a fixed term. [ 1] As a minimum, the agreement identifies the parties, the property, the term of the ...
The ISDA Master Agreement, published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, is the most commonly used master service agreement for OTC derivatives transactions internationally. It is part of a framework of documents, designed to enable OTC derivatives to be documented fully and flexibly. The framework consists of a master ...
A free trade agreement ( FTA) or treaty is an agreement according to international law to form a free-trade area between the cooperating states. There are two types of trade agreements: bilateral and multilateral. Bilateral trade agreements occur when two countries agree to loosen trade restrictions between the two of them, generally to expand ...
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement ( CETA; French: accord économique et commercial global, AECG; German: Umfassendes Wirtschafts- und Handelsabkommenis) is a free-trade agreement between Canada and the European Union and its member states. [ 5][ 6][ 7] It has been provisionally applied ...
The Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA, or in Spanish-speaking countries the Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas, ALCA) was a proposed agreement to eliminate or reduce the trade barriers among all countries in the Americas, excluding Cuba. Negotiations to establish the FTAA ended in failure, however, with all parties unable to reach an ...
Estoppel certificate. An Estoppel Certificate (or Estoppel Letter) is a document commonly used in due diligence in real estate and mortgage activities. It is based on estoppel, the legal principle that prevents or estops someone from claiming a change in the agreement later on. [ 1] It is used in a variety of countries for commercial and ...
Agreement being negotiated. Agreement negotiations on hold/suspended. The European Union has concluded free trade agreements (FTAs) [ 1] and other agreements with a trade component with many countries worldwide and is negotiating with many others. [ 2] The European Union negotiates free trade deals on behalf of all of its member states, as the ...