Meaning of dequity | Babel Free

Definitions

Securities characterized by attributes of both fixed-income and equity securities.

uncountable

Examples

“This book is the first to fully examine⟳ the many recent financial innovations that have⟳ blended the traits of debt and equity and created the hybrid security known as dequity.”

“For example quasi-debt (or dequity) instruments, such as redeemable preference shares, carry⟳ obligations and incentives to perform⟳ in order⟳ that the shares may be repurchased”

“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).”

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