Advance Payment Guarantee/Bond
Definition of Advance Payment Guarantee/Bond
The guarantee could be:
- Primary: Indemnity (fulling payments)
- Secondary: Guarantee (assuring that the outcome will be met)
Related Terms
Acid Test Ratio
The higher the Acid Test Ratio the better a company’s ability to deal with debt.
Acid Test Ratio = (Cash + Marketable Securities + Accounts Receivable)/Current liabilities
Floating Interest Rate
Personal loans and home loans are typical examples of borrowing that carry a floating interest rate. A point to note here: the floating interest rate is added on top of a base interest rate that is charged by lenders.
Basis Of Allotment
The difference between the spot and futures prices forms the “basis” for the trading strategy. Hence the name basis trading. These are the two ways in which a trader may use the basis:
- Share allocation ratio
- Bids
- Demand
- Final price
- Retail Individual Investors (RII)
- Qualified Institutional Buyer (QIB)
- Non-Institutional Buyers (NIBs)
- High Net-worth Individuals (HNIs)
- Anchor Investors
Basing
As a result, the security forms a “base” or flat pattern which means there is little to no upward or downward movement and a decline in volatility.
This may go on for a relatively long time but is crucial as basing is an indicator of any meaningful reversal that may happen.
Forward Market
Forwards are similar to futures but there is one major difference - forwards are unregulated instruments. Any entity writing a forward contract can customize the lot size and other details to fit their needs.
The forward market, as a whole, is an unregulated market whose typical participants include banks, vendors, and other large financial players.

