Positioning and Assignment

noun

• The act of putting something in a certain place.
  • synonyms: placement, location, locating, position, emplacement

verb

• Cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation.
  • synonyms: position
• Put into a certain place or abstract location.
  • usage: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
  • synonyms: put, set, place, pose, position, lay

adjective

• Causing to fall into line or into position.
  • synonyms: aligning

positioning is the act of holding a financial instrument, one or more portfolios of financial instruments, or one's entire balance sheet in a way that exposes the holder to profits or losses from future changes in market prices. Positions may be taken with the intent to profit from expected future market changes (trading activities); may result from inventories of financial assets maintained for sale to customers (dealing activities); or may be the result of the net exposure from transactions (residual positions resulting from trading activities, dealing activities, or customer accommodations). Banks take positions in one of two ways: 1. In their trading accounts, banks (mainly large banks) may take positions with one or more financial instruments in the expectation of profiting from future rate changes. 2. More typically, banks hold or take balance sheet positions. The cumulative interest rate risk exposure from customer deposits, loans, and other activities creates a net residual position that the bank may or may not hedge. Choosing not to hedge is positioning. Alternatively, banks may create a position or add to a residual position in the expectation of profiting from them.

noun

• A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces. )
  • usage: "hazardous duty"
  • synonyms: duty assignment
• The instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another.
• The act of distributing something to designated places or persons.
  • usage: "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
  • synonyms: assigning
• Law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance.
  • synonyms: grant
• An undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor. )
• The act of putting a person into a non-elective position.
  • usage: "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
  • synonyms: appointment, designation, naming

• (n.) The writing by which an interest is transferred.
• (n.) An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
• (n.) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
• (n.) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.

Transfer of any contractual agreement between two parties. One of the parties, the assignor, transfers its rights or obligations to another party, the assignee. If interests in assets of the assignor are assigned, the' assignment' transfers all or some of the rights of ownership to the assignee. If interests in obligations of the assignor are assigned, the assignor is totally or partially absolved from further performance. Lenders sometimes see leased property assigned from the original lessor to another party who then pledges them to the bank as collateral for a loan. For personal property collateral, a secured party may enter an assignment of its security interest into the public record by using a standard form called UCC-3.