Company Promissory Notes

Company promissory notes are traded in the stock market through its members, but they can also be purchased by means of broker financial entities, as banks (savings bank) and money market broker societies.

The company promissory notes provide companies the possibility of going to the market with their own notes, and without needing the banks?  avail, and therefore reduce the mediation costs. This finance system is used by some larger companies nationwide, since they will offer investors the maximum solvency possible.

Company promissory notes were created in 1920 encouraged by General Motors, a North American company, and they have developed over all the United States, Canada and Great Britain as “commercial papers.” 

The role of financial entities is normally that of contacting possible clients interested in investing in commercial papers, and guarantee liquidity at their maturity date. This guarantee liquidity at their maturity date. This guarantee consists in that financial entities grant the issuing company a credit line in which commercial papers are charged at maturity. However, collection guarantee is only provided by the same issuing company?s solvency, since the mentioned credit line will be cancelled in case the company shows serious liquidity problems. Besides commercial papers are issued without mortgage guarantee.

Companies commercial papers bought in the market normally stay under their own custody. If the investor asks for the document itself (physically), one must personally collect at maturity and will not be able to sell it through the market before its amortization.

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