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Flip-Flop Floater

A floater (floating-rate note) that gives the bondholder the right to convert a note with a long maturity date or...

Bullet Security

A fixed-income security (usually a bond) that has no early redemption features (callability or embedded call option). Bullet securities (bullets)...

Capped Floating-Rate Note

A floating-rate note (FRN) in which coupon rates (coupon reset rates) are subject to an upper limit. Like standard FRNs,...

Perpetual FRN

A floater (floating-rate note/ FRN) whose principal never matures, i.e., it doesn't have a redemption payment and only makes perpetual...

Simply Compounded

The interest rate is said to be simply compounded (simple compounding) if it is paid at the end of the...

Coupon Clipping

The removal of interest coupons attached to a bearer bond so that the bearer might submit them to a bank...

Coupon Stripping

A structuring technique which involves the purchase of ordinary bonds (usually, U.S. Treasury bonds) and the repackaging thereof in a...

Deferred Cap Floating Rate Note

A capped floating rate note that is associated with a deferred cap. In other words, it comes with a maximum...

CER

It stands for coupon equivalent rate; also known as equivalent bond yield; the yield on a discount bond that is...

Coupon Equivalent Rate

Also equivalent bond yield; the yield on a discount bond that is computed in the same way the yield on...