Zero Coupon Zero Principal instrument

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

• DematerialisationConverting securities held as physical certificates into book-entry holdings: the certificates are defaced, mutilated and surrendered to the issuer, and an equivalent quantity is credited to the holder's demat account.
• KYC Registration AgencyA SEBI-created agency that holds an investor's verified KYC record centrally, so that one KYC completed with any securities market intermediary works with all the others.
• Price discoveryThe process by which the free interaction of buyers and sellers produces a price that reflects every participant's expectation of what the underlying will be worth at a future date.
• Primary marketThe market where an issuer sells securities to investors for the first time and receives the money itself — the "new issue market", as against the secondary market where investors trade among themselves.
• Regulatory sandboxA SEBI framework letting registered market participants live-test FinTech innovations with a limited set of customers, for a limited period, under the regulator's supervision.
• Secondary marketThe market where securities already issued are traded between investors — the money goes to the selling investor, not to the company, and the issuer's capital is unchanged.