Coupons for your bonds

• The "coupon" payment received by a bondholder from the bond issuer comes from the day when little slips of paper--coupons--we attached to paper bonds and had to be physically redeemed to redeem interest payments.
• Bonds sold in the US by non-US issuer but denominated in dollars are called Yankee bonds; bonds sold in Japan by a non-Japanese issuer but denominated in yen are called Samurai bonds
• Debt securities are being formed by everything, including student loans, credit card loans, home equity loans, and car loans.