Layering and Mezzanine: Difference between pages

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Mezzanine debt is capital designed to be in between equity and debt in respect of both risk and expected return.

Often used in Venture Capital.

The term derives from 'in between' mezzanine floors in buildings.

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+Mezzanine debt is capital designed to be in between equity and debt in respect of both risk and expected return.
-''Money laundering.''
+Often used in Venture Capital.
-The undertaking of a series of financial transactions with the intention of disguising the true source of laundered money.
+The term derives from 'in between' mezzanine floors in buildings.
-This is often the second stage of money laundering.
-It would follow initial 'placement' of the illegally obtained money into the legitimate financial system.
+== See also ==
+* [[Corporate finance]]
+* [[Hybrid]]
+* [[Venture capital]]
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-''Market manipulation.''
+== Other links ==
-The (illegal) practice of simultaneously entering a large number of orders intended to be cancelled - for example to buy - together with a smaller number of orders intended to be executed - for example to sell.
+[http://www.treasurers.org/node/10048 Mezzanine debt, The Treasurer, April 2014]
-The intention is to artificially influence the market price with the subsequently cancelled orders, and to take advantage of that artificial market price with the executed orders.
-== See also ==
-* [[Integration]]
-* [[Market abuse]]
-* [[Placement]]
-* [[Spoofing]]
-[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
+[[Category:Corporate_finance]]