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Baby Bond * Back Bond * Back Contract * Back End Set Swap * Back Fee * Back Month * Back Spread * Back Stub Period * Back Testing * Back Up * Back-to-Back Loan * Back-to-Back Swap * Back-Up Facility * Backward Induction * Backwardation * Balance of Payments * Balloon * Band * Bank Basis * Bank Capital Adequacy Requirements * Bank Deposit Agreement (BDA) * Bank for International Settlements (BIS) * Bank Guarantee * Bank Investment Contract (BIC) * Bankers' Acceptance * Banker's Acceptance Swap * Banking on Overall Stability (Boost) * Bankruptcy Remote Entity * Barbell Strategy * Bargain * Barings Collapse * Barrier Discontinuity * Barrier Option * Barrier Price * Base Currency * Basis * Basis Point (BP, BIP) * Basis Price * Basis Rate Swap * Basis Risk * Basis Swap * Basis Trade * Basket * Basket Hedging * Basket Option or Warrant * Basket Swap Rate * Basket Trade * Basle Convergence Agreement * Basle Standards for Market Risk * Bayes Stein Adjustment * Bayes' Theorem * Bayesian Adjustment * Bear Floater * Bear Hug * Bear or Bearish * Bear Spread * Bear Swap * Bearer (Participation) Certificate * Bearer Instrument * Bed and Breakfast * Behavioral Finance * Belgian Option * Bells and Whistles * Benchmark * Benefit of Carry * Bermuda Option * Bernoulli Trial * Best Bond to Deliver * Best Buy Option * Best Execution * Best Practice * Best Price Option * Best Strike Option * Best-Of Option * Bet Option * Beta * Better-Of-Two-Assets Option * Bid * Bid-Asked Spread * Bid-to-Cover Ratio * Bifurcation * Big Bang * Big Figure * Biger and Hull Model * Bilateral Margining Agreement * Bilateral Netting * Bill * Bill Over Bond (BOB) Spread * Bimodal Distribution * Bin * Binary LIBOR Note * Binary LIBOR Swap * Binary Option * Binary Swap * Binomial Model * BIP, BP * Bisection Method * Black Box * Black-Derman-Toy Model * Black-Scholes Equation * Blended Index * Blended Interest Rate Swap * Block Trade * Blowout Bid * Blue-Sky Laws * Board of Trade * BOAT Spread * BOATs * Bobl Over Bund (BOB) Spread * Boil Spread * Boiler Room * Boilerplate * Bond * Bond Basis * Bond Equivalent Yield (BEY) * Bond Over Bill (BOB) Spread * Bond Value * Bond Warrant * Bond With Attached Warrant * Bond Yield Warrant * Bond-Over-Stock (BOS) Warrant * Book Entry Securities * Bookout * Boot * Bootstrapping * Borrower Option * Borrower's Option- Lender's Option (BO-LO) * Börse, Borsa or Bourse * Boston Option * Bottom Fisher * Bought Deal * Boundary Conditions * Bounded Rationality * Box Spread * Boxplot * Brady Bond * Break Forward * Break Out * Break-Even Point * Break-Even Time * Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 * Bridge Loan * British Bankers Association Interest Rate Swap (BB * Broken Dates * Broker * Brokerage * Brownian Motion * Bucket Shop * Bucketing * Bucketizing * Building-Block Approach * Bull and Bear Notes * Bull Floater * Bull Floating Rate Note * Bull or Bullish * Bull Spread * Bull-cum-Bear Options * Bulldog Bond * Bullet Maturity Bond * Bullet Swap * Bundesbank (Buba) * Bundle * Bunds * Bunny Bond * Burnout * Business Day * Busted Convertible Security * Busted Planned Amortization Class (PAC) Bond * Butterfly Spread * Buy Back * Buyer's Option * Buyer's Right to Pay (BRP) Fixed Swaption * Buy-In * Buying the Basis * Buy-Out of a Swap in Termination * Buy-Write * Buy-write Option UNitary DerivativeS (BOUNDS)

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