underwriter

English

Etymology

From underwrite +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

underwriter (plural underwriters)

1. An entity assuming a financial risk.
2. (insurance) A person working for an insurance company who arranges and authorizes an insurance policy with a broker or insured.
3. (finance) An entity undertaking to market newly issued securities.

   They were the underwriters of the company's shares, but only on a "best efforts" basis.

Translations

An entity assuming a financial risk

• Bulgarian: поръчител (bg) m (porǎčitel)
• Finnish: yhteyspäällikkö
• Georgian: ანდერაიტერი (anderaiṭeri), დამზღვევი (damzɣvevi), მზღვეველი (mzɣveveli)
• German: Risikoabsicherer m, Risikoträger m
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can

  Bokmål: assurandør m

• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: asegurador m, aseguradora (es) f, entidad aseguradora f
• Swedish: försäkringsgivare (sv) c

A person working for an insurance company who arranges and authorizes an insurance policy with a broker or insured

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 承保人 (chéngbǎorén)

• German: Versicherungssachbearbeiter m, Versicherungsmitarbeiter m, Underwriter m
• Indonesian: penilai (id)
• Polish: asekurant (pl) m, asekurator m, ubezpieczyciel m
• Spanish: asegurador m, aseguradora (es) f

An entity undertaking to market newly issued securities.

• German: Zeichner (de) m
• Indonesian: penjamin emisi
• Spanish: asegurador financiero m, aseguradora financiera f