Commercial Paper

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Accrued interestCoupon earned from the last coupon date up to settlement, paid by the buyer to the seller on top of the negotiated price, because the issuer will pay the whole coupon to whoever holds the bond next.
• Bond Equivalent YieldThe annualised simple-interest return on a money market instrument, computed on price and a 365-day year, so instruments of different maturities can be compared on one basis.
• Call moneyUncollateralised overnight lending and borrowing of funds between scheduled commercial banks and primary dealers — the shortest segment of the Indian money market.
• Call optionA contract giving its buyer the right, but never the obligation, to buy the underlying at a fixed strike price — so the loss is capped at the premium and the gain is not.
• Cash Management BillsVery short-term discounted Treasury Bills of under 91 days, issued by the Government of India to bridge temporary mismatches in its own cash flow.
• Convertible bondA bond carrying an embedded option that lets the holder exchange it for a specified number of the issuer's equity shares — a plain bond plus an equity conversion right.