Meaning & use
corporate issuer
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Meaning
nouncountablefinancebusiness
A company that offers securities, such as stocks or bonds, for sale to investors.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'a corporate issuer' or 'corporate issuers'.
Patterns
- a corporate issuer of securities
- corporate issuer debt
- register as a corporate issuer
The bonds were sold by a large corporate issuer.
Investors are demanding more transparency from corporate issuers.
The company became a corporate issuer when it launched its IPO.
Word forms
| plural | corporate issuers |
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Common combinations
- corporate issuer of securities
- As a corporate issuer of securities, the firm must file regular reports.
- major corporate issuer
- The bank is a major corporate issuer in the European market.
- corporate issuer credit rating
- The agency downgraded the corporate issuer's credit rating.
- domestic corporate issuer
- Foreign investors are buying bonds from domestic corporate issuers.
Synonyms and how they differ
- issuer
- Issuer is the general term for any entity that issues securities; corporate issuer specifically means a company, not a government or other organization.
- debtor
- A debtor owes money, while a corporate issuer offers securities to raise money. The terms overlap but are not identical.
Word family
Commonly confused: corporate issuer or corporate issue?
corporate issuer vs corporate issue
Corporate issue refers to a problem or topic concerning a company, while corporate issuer refers to the company that issues securities.
Practice
A corporate issuer is best described as:
Choose one answer.
A corporate issuer is a company that offers (issues) securities to investors to raise money. The other options describe different roles in the financial markets.
Make it your own
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