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Hybrid Financial Instrument

A financial instrument that combines multiple elements or components of different, distinguishing features, particularly debt-type (debt instrument) and equity-type (equity...

Hybrid

A financial security that has the characteristics of debt and equity. A classic example of hybrids (hybrid securities) is the...

Hybrid Security

A financial security that has the characteristics of debt and equity. A classic example of hybrid securities is the preferred...

Haircut Spiral

The rush by cash borrowers (collateral providers) to withdraw their securities posted as collateral to a dealer (broker-dealer) through deals...

Hard Asset

In a broad context, it is a tangible or physical item or economic resource that an entity or natural person...

High Yield Investment Program

A Ponzi scheme by which original "investors" (instigators of the fraud) claim to offer prospect investors, who invest some cash...

HYIP

An abbreviation for high yield investment program which is essentially a Ponzi scheme by which original "investors" (instigators of the...

High-Yield Bond

A bond that is rated below investment grade (a rating of BB or lower) due to its bad credit quality....

Hard Call Protection

The constrained right of an issuer to redeem a convertible from holders before the passage of a specific period of...

Hybrid Fixed-Rate Reverse Floating-Rate Note

A floater (FRN) that pays a high fixed rate coupon for an introductory period (first one or two years), then...