A joint bond is legal now in many Blue States. But that's probably a different joint bond than the one you're looking for here.
Instead, the one you seek exists where multiple parties guarantee both the principal and interest. Which means that, if a joint bond defaults, the buyer of the bond who now wants their money back has a guarantee to get that money back from more than one person/institution.
Joint bonds are bonds that are sharing and caring...because sharing risk (thus reducing individual risk) is caring.
Who knew a type of bond could be so adorable?
Besides general risk-spreading and sharing by bond issuers, joint bonds are common in situations where you have a subsidiary and a parent company. If the subsidiary issues a bond, it’s no surprise that it’s kinda actually issued by the parent company...so they just do a joint bond where it’s both, and call it a day.
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Finance allah shmoop What is a surety bond Think sure
It t like certainty Remember when you were a kid
at summer camp and had to pony up a buck
to prove your heavy roller status at friday night's poker
game And then there was a buddy who promised to
pay more than that if you lost more than your
buck Well surety bonds air kind of like that We
repeat kind of a surety bond is an agreement between
three parties One party guarantees that a second party will
fulfil a promise to the third party For example one
signer might guarantee that a small business will honor a
government contract That is that small business will have to
go borrow a whole bunch of money to go build
a bunch of fence wire stuff for the government that
they would need somewhere in the south And then some
bigger contractor would guarantee that that small business will in
fact perform on the contract If the small business doesn't
perform the contract like as guaranteed building whatever fencing materials
and the government wanted to build will the person who
signed on their behalf would likely have to either pay
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Sorry we're done anyway all the parties involved bond with
certainty the delivery of whatever product or service that surety
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