step-up notes

step-up notes definition - finance
A note that is callable. The note has one interest rate that is applicable for a specified period of time. A second, higher interest rate becomes effective after the first period of time ends, and so on.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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