Securities Offering

Definition

Securities Offering is an Issue of one or more securities of the same type, as all or part of an Offering of securities to the market.

If the offering is public, then it can only be made after regulatory registration requirements have been met. The securities may be new or a secondary offering of a previously issued security, and may include stock, multiple classes of equity shares, municipal or other government bonds, and so forth. Offerings, especially to the investment public, are typically made by an investment banker, or syndicate of investment bankers.

Issues and Challenges

This term is defined as the common concept which brings together MBS deals, Bond With Warrant issues, MTN issues and so on, along with issues of more than one class of share in an equities issue. Many detailed terms have been provided for specific types of issue, most notably Municipal Bond issues (from DTCC) and MBS issues from the MBS PoC project.

See Also

• Barron's Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, Ninth Edition, 2014.
• http://www.investopedia.com/