Citations:debtquity

English citations of debtquity

1. (finance, informal) securities characterized by attributes of both fixed income securities and equity securities.
   • 1996, Richard S. Wilson with Frank J. Fabozzi, Corporate bonds: structures & analysis, page 96:

     They can be designed with debt-like features so as to satisfy the Internal Revenue Service that they are debt instruments, not equity (or "debtquity" as some refer to junk bonds).