Vanilla issue
A security issue that has no unusual features. |
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Plain vanilla bondA typical ‘plain vanilla’ bond issued in the United States specifies (a) a fixed date (maturity or expiry date) when the amount borrowed (the principal or face value) is due, and (b) the contractual amount of interest which typically is paid every six months in the US and once a year on the European continent. A plain vanilla bond has a known cash flow pattern.
Plain vanilla
A term that refers to a relatively simple derivative financial instrument, usually a swap or other derivative that is issued with standard features.
Rights issue
An new share issue to existing shareholders giving them the right to buy new shares at a predetermined price.
Issuance of "rights" to current shareholders allowing them to purchase additional shares,usually at a discount to market price. Shareholders who do not exercise these rights are usually diluted by the offering. Rights are often transferable, allowing the holder to sell them on the open market to others who may wish to exercise them. Rights offerings are particularly common to c ...
Unseasoned issue
Issue of a security for which there is no existing market.
Specific issues market
The market in which dealers reverse in securities they wish to short.
Small issues exemption
Securities issues that involve less than $1.5 million are not required to file a registration statement with the SEC. Instead, they are governed by Regulation A, for which only a brief offering statement is needed.
Secondary issue
A secondary issue is both a (a) procedure for selling blocks of seasoned issues of stocks or (b) more generally, the sale of already issued stock.
Seasoned new issue
A new issue of stock after the company's securities have previously been issued. A seasoned new issue of common stock can be made by using a cash offer or a rights offer.
Seasoned issue
Issue of a security for which there is an existing market.
Reopen an issue
The Treasury, when it wants to sell additional securities, will occasionally sell more of an existing issue (reopen it) rather than offer a new issue.
Presold issue
An issue that is sold out before the coupon announcement.
Oversubscribed issue
Investors are not able to buy all of the shares or bonds they want, so underwriters must allocate the shares or bonds among investors. This occurs when a new issue is underpriced or in great demand because of growth prospects.
Original issue discount debt (OID debt)
Debt that is initially offered at a price below par.
New-issues market
The market in which a new issue of securities is first sold to investors.
Multiple-issuer pools
Under the GNMA-II program, pools formed through the aggregation of individual issuers' loan packages.
Benchmark issues
Also called on-the-run or current coupon issues or bellwether issues. In the secondary market, it's the most recently auctioned Treasury issues for each maturity.
Cheapest to deliver issue
The acceptable Treasury security with the highest implied repo rate; the rate that a seller of a futures contract can earn by buying an issue and then delivering it at the settlement date.
Current issue
In Treasury securities, the most recently auctioned issue. Trading is more active in current issues than in off-the-run issues.
Fiduciary issue
The fiduciary issue is the part of the issue of notes and coins that is not backed by gold. In the past bank notes were issued and were backed by gold. You could always redeem your notes and have gold back in exchange. However, the system quickly developed so that the value of notes issued exceeded the amount of gold. That part of the note issue in excess of the amount of gold was the fiduciary issue. In other words the amount of money issued on trust. Today the whole note issue is fiduciary.
