A debenture is a document that either creates a debt or acknowledges it, and it is a debt without collateral. In corporate finance, the term is used for a medium- to long-term debt instrument used by large companies to borrow money. In some countries the term is used interchangeably with bond, loan stock or note. A debenture is thus like a certificate of loan or a loan bond evidencing the fact that the company is liable to pay a specified amount with interest and although the money raised by the debentures becomes a part of the company's capital structure, it does not become share capital. Senior debentures get paid before subordinate debentures, and there are varying rates of risk and payoff for these categories.

Debentures are generally freely transferable by the debenture holder. Debenture holders have no rights to vote in the company's general meetings of shareholders, but they may have separate meetings or votes e.g. on changes to the rights attached to the debentures. The interest paid to them is a charge against profit in the company's financial statements.

Contents

• 1 Attributes
• 2 Security in different jurisdictions
• 3 Convertibility
• 4 See also
• 5 References

Noun

debenture (plural debentures)

1. A certificate that certifies an amount of money owed to someone; a certificate of indebtedness.
2. (obsolete) A certificate of a loan made to the government; a government bond.
   • 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon 2001, p. 72:

     Madame Corre, who made the important decisions after her plodding husband had spent hours on the ledger, sold the family debentures and put the money into Dutch decurities.

3. (finance) A type of bond secured only by the general credit or promise to pay of the issuer, now commonly issued by large, well established corporations with adequate credit ratings.

Derived terms

• debenture bond
• debenture stock

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