Security

1. Collateral.

Assets pledged by a borrower, as additional protection for the lender's interest.

For example a residential mortgage loan, for which the security is the residential property mortgaged to the lender.

2. Credit risk - legal risk - commercial risk.

Other improvements to the legal or commercial position of a lender or another party, particularly in relation to credit risk.

3. Stocks - shares - similar assets.

A tradeable legal claim upon the assets of the issuer of the security.

Examples of traded securities include shares and bonds.

4. Safety - confidentiality.

Safety, including both physical safety and - for example - the confidentiality of information.

5. Controls - systems - procedures.

Systems and procedures to improve safety.

Including for example both physical access controls and electronic controls such as encryption and passwords.

See also

• Alienation of assets
• Bearer security
• Bells and whistles
• Bond
• Bought deal
• Capital instrument
• Charge
• Collateral
• Collateral agreement
• Controls
• Cyber security
• Debt security
• Deep discount issue
• Deep market
• De-listing
• Deregulation
• Dual currency bond
• Filter rule
• Financial instrument
• Firm bid/Firm offer
• Fixed charge
• Floating charge
• Food security
• Hybrid
• Information security management system
• Insider dealing
• Investment bank
• Issuance
• Issue price
• Issuer
• Issuing house
• Jumbo
• Liquidity
• Listed security
• Listing
• Medium term notes
• Mortgage
• Negative pledge
• Non-callable
• Offer for sale
• Open-ended investment company
• Over the counter
• Principal value
• Private placement
• Promissory note
• Prospectus
• Quote
• Registered security
• Safekeeping
• Schuldschein
• Secured
• Secured creditor
• Secured debt
• Securitisation
• Security Market Line
• Securities Financing Transaction
• Share
• SLY
• Solvency
• Spens clause
• Stock
• Traded option
• Tranche
• Transport Layer Security
• Undated
• Undervalued
• Underwriting
• Unsecured debt
• Whole business securitisation
• Yield