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Banking
Plain Vanilla Bonds
A plain vanilla bond is market jargon to describe a standard bond i.e. an interest-bearing security paying coupons at regular intervals with a stated fixed maturity. In other words, a plain vanilla bond has no embedded options or structured elements.