A secondary market is a platform wherein the shares of companies are traded among investors.

There are always two counterparties to a repurchase agreement. The party that buys the collateral at the start of the trade and sells it on the maturity date enters a reverse repo.

This is often referred to as a repo. A repo transaction involves two parties, the buyer and the seller.

Repo Rate, or repurchase rate, is the key monetary policy rate of interest at which the central bank or the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lends short-term money to banks.

Registered bonds are issued in the owner’s (bond holder’s) name and address.

Reg-S is a Securities Exchange Commission filing used for Initial Public Offerings targeted at non-US investors.

This is a private placement issued under 144a that allows Non-US companies to access sophisticated domestic US investors.

The recovery rate is the percentage of your money that you get back.

Rating agencies assess the credit quality of issuers and debt instruments. The most popular rating companies are; Standard & Poors, Moodys, and Fitch.

A rating is an assessment tool assigned by an analyst or rating agency to a stock or bond.