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Mat: The surrounding area between the frame and the picture.

Materiality: The importance of an event or information in influencing a company's stock price.

Match-Fund: A bank is said to match-fund a loan or other asset when it does so by buying (taking) a deposit of the same maturity. The term is commonly used in the Euromarket.

Materials: The physical inputs to manufacturing, treated as part of cost of sales. Also known as raw materials.

Matched Maturities: The coordination by a financial institution of the maturities of its assets (loans) and liabilities (deposits) in order to enable it to meet its obligations at the required times.

Mathematical Programming: An operations research technique that solves problems in which an optimal value is sought subject to specified constraints. Mathematical programming models include linear programming, quadra . . . View Full Definition

Fair Information Practices: A set of standards developed in the early 1970s to describe how information should be used and protected: usually stated as eight principles in this country and including openness, individua . . . View Full Definition

Matched Book: A bank runs a matched book when the of maturities of its assets and liabilities is distribution equal.

Systematic Withdrawal Plan: Only the systematic portion of risk matters in large, well-diversified portfolios. Thus, expected returns must be related only to systematic risks.

Automatic Stay: The restricting of liabilityholders from collection efforts related to collateral seizure. Automatically imposed when a firm files for bankruptcy under Chapter 11.