Bells and whistles

Bells and whistles

Additional features of a security designed to attract investors and/or reduce issuer costs.

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Industry/Domain: Financial services
Category: General Finance
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bells and whistles

Professional careers; Sales

The optional features added on to a basic product to catch the interest of a larger number of buyers, see also plain vanilla.

Bells and Whistles

Economy; Economics

the optional features built into a basic product to satisfy or impress as large as possible a number of buyers; the term "plain vanilla" is an equivalent slang term used to ...

bells and whistles

Software; Software development

Fancy features provided by an application. Typically, the term refers to small features that are needed only in special cases or to features that make the program more visibly ...

bells and whistles

Financial services; General Finance

Additional features of a security designed to attract investors and/or reduce issuer costs.

bells and whistles

Language; Slang

Extra, fancy gadgets. * I like machines with all the bells and whistles. * All those bells and whistles add to the cost.

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A financial assistance given out in times of personal fincancial hardship, e.g. loss of job, insurance, or property.

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Awards of financial assistance in the form of money by governments to an eligible grantee with no expectation that the funds will be paid back. This does not include technical ...

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