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Business Definition for: eligible securities
eligible securities
- debt securities banks may buy from issuers and trade in the dealer market-principally Treasury obligations and general obligation municipal bonds. Trading in "ineligible" securities such as corporate bonds is restricted to a bank's securities subsidiary
- securities regarded as acceptable bank investments: Treasury and agency securities, and municipal bonds in the four top rating categories.
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