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The entity that promises to pay you back, then prices that promise as a product.
means The organization — a company, bank, or government — that creates and distributes a financial instrument (a bond, stock, or card) and takes on the obligation behind it.
from Straightforward lineage: from the verb 'issue,' via Old French 'issue' (an exit, a going-out), rooted in Latin 'exire' — 'ex-' (out) plus 'ire' (to go). To issue was literally to send something out from yourself. Finance just kept the sense of 'sending forth' and attached a price tag.
- not the seller
- brokers sell it, issuers actually owe the debt
- risk pricing
- shakier issuer, juicier yield to compensate
- credit rating
- agencies grade issuers, not individual trades
- stock version
- companies issuing shares dilute to raise cash