BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Eligible Paper
- in the United States, first class paper (such as a bill of exchange or a check) acceptable for rediscounting by the Federal Reserve System.
- in the United Kingdom, bills of exchange or securities accepted by the Bank of England as security for loans to discount houses
- See also Lender Of Last Resort
Additional Resources
- eligible paper
- eligible paper 1. Treasury bills, short-dated gilts, and any first-class security, accepted by a British bank or an accepting house and thus acceptable by the Bank of England for rediscounting, or as security for loans to discount houses. The Bank of England's classification of eligible paper...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- eligible paper
- eligible paper 1. Treasury bills, short-dated gilts, and any first-class security, accepted by a British bank or an accepting house and thus acceptable by the Bank of England for rediscounting, or as security for loans to discount houses. The Bank of England's classification of eligible...
- Research articles 1997-01-01
- Fitch Addresses Implications of Eligible Liquidity Facilities In New ABCP Report
- NEW YORK -- How banks choose to address 'eligible liquidity facilities' on rated assets and securities held by asset-backed commercial paper ABCP programs may have credit implications for investors in the ABCP arena, according to Fitch Ratings. A new criteria report published by Fitch addresses effect of eligible liquidity...
- Research articles 2005-07-12
- Medicare: Contingency Plans to Address Potential Problems With the Transition of Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries From Medicaid to Medicare Drug Coverage
- This paper consist of a document which reports that the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 MMA established a voluntary outpatient prescription drug benefit, known as Medicare Part D. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS is responsible for implementing this benefit. This new drug coverage...
- White papers 2005-12-16
- IDA Executive Board discusses the List of Ring-Fenced Countries potentially eligible under the enhanced HIPC initiative.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-17 April 2006-WORLD BANK: IDA Executive Board discusses the List of Ring-Fenced Countries potentially eligible under the enhanced HIPC initiativeC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14042006 WASHINGTON - Yesterday the Executive Board of the World Bank's International Development Association IDA approved the...
- Research articles 2006-04-17
- NCAA Men's: Report: Michigan eligible for 2004 NCAA Tournament.
- Detroit, MI, Sep 25, 2003 The Sports Network via COMTEX The University of Michigan reportedly will be eligible for the NCAA Tournament next spring after a successful appeal to the NCAA. The Detroit Free Press reported in its Thursday edition that...
- Research articles 2003-09-25
- Health Benefits for Medicare-Eligible Military Retirees: Rationalizing TRICARE for Life
- This paper is directed primarily to policymakers within DoD and in Congress, but it may also be of interest to individuals at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and to other readers interested in health insurance for the DoD/Medicare population. This paper was undertaken in the months preceding implementation...
- White papers 2004-10-14
- Who's Eligible for Financial Assistance Under Medicare Part D?
- Undoubtedly the public will be hearing much more about Medicare Part D as Prescription Drug Plans PDPs are selected and begin promoting their programs. At least one group of people with Medicare already received preliminary information in mailings from the Social Security Administration SSA: those with low incomes who may...
- White papers 2005-09-12
- A Theoretical and Empirical Comparison of Free Agent and Arbitration-Eligible Salaries Negotiated in Major League Baseball
- Phillip A. Miller [*] This paper presents a theoretical and empirical comparison of determination of negotiated salaries in baseball's free agent market to that in its final-offer arbitration FOA system. The theoretical bargaining model of each system is based on Nash (1950). It is argued that Farber's (1980) model...
- Research articles 2000-07-01
- Walmart Keeps Pushing Healthcare Initiatives, No Matter What Retail Thinks
- When it takes on an issue, Walmart does so in a fully realized manner and inevitably incorporates it into retail operations, so it’s not surprising that the company brought up the healthcare debate currently centered on the United States Congress in announcing an expansion of its low-cost prescription drug programs....
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- State health benefits program
- The purpose of this paper is to provide you with information about the Employee Prescription Drug Plan is offered to Eligible State of New Jersey employees and their dependents. Eligible employees of State colleges and universities and participating independent State commissions, authorities, and agencies and their dependents. Eligible employees of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Sri Lanka's Poverty Reduction Strategy: A Trade Union and Worker Response
- The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper PRSP is a country development paper inspired by the International Financial Institutions IFIs for becoming eligible to concessionary international financial assistance under a facility called the Poverty Reduction Growth Facility PRGF established by the International Monetary Fund IMF supported by the World Bank in 1999....
- White papers 2003-04-07
- Enrolling in the State Health Benefits Program When You Retire
- The purpose of this paper is to provide you with information, who are eligible for employer-paid health insurance coverage until their retirement date, will be offered State Health Benefits Program SHBP coverage for themselves and their eligible dependents when they retire.
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Use and Costs of Bariatric Surgery and Prescription Weight-Loss Medications
- The extent of use of bariatric surgery and weight-loss medications is unknown. Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the paper estimates that the number of bariatric surgeries grew 400 percent between 1998 and 2002; such surgeries were performed on 0.6 percent of the 11.5 million adults clinically eligible in 2002. Hospital...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Expanding Health Coverage for the Uninsured: Fundamentals of the Tax Credit Option
- This paper seeks to provide the basics for understanding the current debate over tax credits as a vehicle for reducing the number of uninsured Americans and focuses attention on some of the associated issues: How is health insurance treated under current tax law? Why tax credits and not deductions? What...
- White papers 2002-08-28
- Thornburg Mortgage Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question is with Richard V. Shane with Jefferies and Company. Please go ahead sir. Richard V. Shane - Jefferies & Co. Larry, thanks for taking my question. I’m going to ask you to try to...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-18
- Congress advised to help increase base of Latino Head Start children.
- While a third of children eligible for Head Start are Latinos, actual enrollment shows tremendous unmet need among this population. Nowhere is this more true than in Early Head Start--which provides the earliest source of literacy services for low-income children--where fewer than 3...
- Research articles 2005-06-09
- Council: Congress needs major push to improve Latino Head Start roles.
- With more Latino children eligible for Head Start, Congress should help increase recruitment of at-risk children for the program and encourage bilingual teachers to gain credentials appropriate for this growing population, a new report says. Latinos account for about one-third of Head Start-eligible...
- Research articles 2005-05-25
- Scaldis Capital Limited $4B 4-2- ABCP Program Rated 'F1+'
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE---Nov. 5, 1999-- Scaldis Capital Limited's $4.0 billion asset-backed commercial paper CP program, sponsored by Fortis Bank S.A./N.V. Fortis, is rated `F1+' by Fitch IBCA. The rating is based on the high quality of the eligible assets and eligible securities to be purchased by Scaldis, the programwide...
- Research articles 1999-11-05
- Laid-off Glatfelter workers in Spring Grove, Pa., will get more aid.
- By Bill Sulon, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 15--When Glatfelter lays off 175 employees -- 15 percent of the work force -- at its Spring Grove paper-making plant in October, all will be eligible for increased unemployment benefits,...
- Research articles 2004-07-15
