This month I have left logistics behind for a new job in the financial sector. This is a domain that I know absolutely nothing about, so there are plenty of words to learn. I will start with these:

Oslo Stock Exchange 🏛

There are different marketplaces with separate sets of requirements.

Oslo Børs	A full stock exchange listing for large companies with a track record
Oslo Axess	A regulated market for companies with less than 3 years history
Merkur Market	Multilateral trading facility with less strict requirements and reporting

Instruments 🎻

Common naming in the codebase! Because it’s a collective term for misc tradables.

Financial instruments are monetary contracts between parties. They can be created, traded, modified and settled. – Wikipedia

• Equities – shares and stocks (not technically exactly the same, but more or less)
• Derivatives – a contract that derives its value from something else
• Bonds – a bind to pay a loan (“obligasjon” in Norwegian)

This is way more complex, but learning the difference roughly for a handful will do for now.

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Ticker	The abbreviation to identify companies (or more precisely publicly traded shares)
Security	Oooh, that is English for the Norwegian term “verdipapir”
Indices	A-ha, plural of index! And a measurement of a section of the stock market
ISIN	International Securities Identifying Number
GICS	Global Industry Classification Standard