(n.) Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.
(n.) A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.
Example Sentences:
(1) In no time, Unilever’s shareholder register would have been populated by merger arbitrage funds.
(2) "Long term, the impact of this approach is that it should provide incentives for firms to dismantle corporate or capital structures that might have been developed to exploit tax or regulatory arbitrage," Myners said.
(3) Tom Gosling, reward partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: "There is a wider question of differences in regulatory approach at the global level creating an uneven playing field, and a risk of geographic arbitrage in favour of jurisdictions that are perceived to be more lenient."
(4) HFTs employing latency arbitrage examine current market information to predict immediate price movements, essentially computing the best prices available before the exchange has even had a chance to update its price quote.
(5) In her lecture Cohen outlines the deal we have struck with the “surveillance-innovation complex”, involving a deeply worrying complicity between state and private actors - “a mutually satisfactory game of regulatory arbitrage”.
(6) This time, it relies on the kind of jurisdictional arbitrage familiar to so many lawless sites the world over: because its technical collection points are physically outside the US, it does not require authorization from either Congress or the Fisa court, even though the dragnet inevitably captures large amounts of data from Americans.
(7) More complex systems lead to a greater amount of arbitrage.
(8) For the sole purpose of repaying euro-denominated debts with a revived local currency, an official exchange rate between the euro and the local currency would need to be fixed with the ECB , under strict controls over such operations and capital flows and to prevent speculative arbitrage.
(9) Here are some tax techniques used by different companies over the years • Cross-border tax arbitrage • Hybrid debt instruments • Hybrid entities • Thin capitalisation • Thick capitalisation • Debt dumping • Loss buying • Outward domestication • Corporate inversions • Tax-efficient supply chain management • Intangibles fragmentation • Dividend buying • Company migrations • Dividend traps • Dutch sandwich • Swiss roundabout (long obsolete) • Value shifting • Defeased leasing • Capital allowance buying • Rent factoring • This article was amended on Thursday 5 February 2009.
(10) Better coordination has reduced the risk of regulatory arbitrage, and address the threat that banks will be, as the former Bank of England governor Mervyn King memorably put it , “international in life but national in death.” The US and the UK took the lead on reform, and Europe has been catching up.
(11) A financial transaction tax needs careful design, must be set at a modest rate without creating negative economic consequences and must minimise international tax arbitrage.
(12) Regulators and supervisors must protect consumers and investors, support market discipline, avoid adverse impacts on other countries, reduce the scope for regulatory arbitrage, support competition and dynamism, and keep pace with innovation in the marketplace.
(13) Privacy International said it had long suspected that members of Five Eyes have been playing "a game of jurisdictional arbitrage to sidestep domestic laws governing interception and collection of data".
(14) This requires a smart arbitrage by the news producers.
(15) The Globes have also found room for the unexpected reward: no one was tipping Richard Gere for the hedge fund thriller Arbitrage , or Jack Black for the mortician-murder comedy Bernie.
(16) It seems fanciful to imagine Britons who spent two weeks glued to the TV will, like Stakhanovites, suddenly meet higher norms in car production, healthcare and financial arbitrage.
(17) More surprises included a nod for Nicole Kidman as best supporting actress for her role in The Paperboy, and Richard Gere as best actor for Arbitrage.
(18) Trendon T Shavers, from KcKinney in Texas, was the founder and operator of "Bitcoin Savings and Trust" (BTCST), allegedly raised a total of 700,000 Bitcoins in 2011 and 2012 – then worth about $4.5m – for his scheme, claiming that he made his profits on market arbitrage.
(19) Moreover, the higher the gap between official interest rates and the higher rates on mortgage lending as a result of macro-prudential restrictions, the more room there is for regulatory arbitrage.
(20) A burgeoning trade in exploiting the anomalies of cross-border "tax arbitrage" was also curtailed.
Arbitration
Definition:
(n.) The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
(2) However, an amended version of the new contract for England’s 55,000 junior doctors has now finally been agreed, after 10 days of talks overseen by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas).
(3) Had July’s original Fifa judgment not been watered down by the court of arbitration for sport then he would not even have been permitted to train while the ban was in place.
(4) A Football Association Rule K hearing could see the Italian take the League to an independent arbitration tribunal, which may prove a lengthy process.
(5) After the court of arbitration for sport upheld the ban but reduced the sanction from six years to four, Platini again protested his innocence and railed against a “profound injustice”.
(6) On Thursday, the court of arbitration for sport upheld the ban on 68 Russian track and field athletes from the Rio games made by athletics’ governing body, the IAAF.
(7) Nevertheless a great deal of progress was made over the recognition criteria, with agreement reached on all points except the method of appointments to the new regulator, over which the Guardian had reservations, and the arbitration service, which the regional press and magazine editors feared could result in unsustainable cost.
(8) They won't put to rights the arbitration procedures that local editors fear; they'll continue to debate the rights and wrongs of exemplary damages till kingdom come.
(9) Appearing before the court on Tuesday, Australia’s solicitor general, Justin Gleeson SC, said Brandis had previously directed that the material not be communicated to anyone involved in conducting the arbitration.
(10) The arbitration hearing before a former federal judge will determine whether the NFL overstepped its authority in modifying Rice’s two-game suspension, making it indefinite after video of the running back hitting his wife – then his fiancee – was released by TMZ.
(11) Then Fredric Horowitz, baseball's arbitrator, will have 25 games to come to his judgement.
(12) Last week, the suspended Fifa president and his Uefa counterpart lost appeals over their provisional suspensions and plan to take their cases to the court of arbitration for sport.
(13) The case dates back to 2008, when Lagarde, as Sarkozy's finance minister, ordered private arbitration in a long-running business dispute between Tapie and the French state.
(14) Major League Baseball does not announce positive tests and penalties in drug cases involving initial positives until all arbitration is concluded.
(15) All of this is being set aside, as the new agreements call for private, non-transparent, and very expensive arbitration.
(16) It does not address the substance of the issues at hand – neither the arbitral tribunal's jurisdiction nor Mauritius's claim.
(17) Ipso will include a standards and compliance arm with investigative powers and an arbitration service to offer a speedy and inexpensive alternative to the libel courts.
(18) "A woman with such a marriage would have no choice but to go to a sharia tribunal … But it's not the way arbitration is supposed to work."
(19) The detail is still being worked on, he said, but any magazine or newspaper that does not comply with regulation will effectively be preventing a complainant from using a cheaper, royal charter-approved arbitration service and so forcing them to take their case to court.
(20) What is proposed is that the new body should contain an arbitration procedure that will be quicker and more open than the commission, and cheaper and more accessible than the law.