Posts Tagged ‘issue’

An Issuer is…

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

An issuer is anybody or anything that introduces a financial asset – usually a security – to the market to raise money. For example, a government is an issuer of government bonds, and a company can issue stocks or derivatives.

An Issue is…

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

An issue is a financial asset that an issuer sells to raise money for itself. For example, a company is an issuer when it sells stocks and the stocks are the issue. A country can also issue bonds to raise money – to issue securities, like stocks or bonds, means to put them on the market for sale.