The process of separating each coupon payment, as well as the principal (called the corpus), and selling securities against them is referred to as coupon separating.

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The process described is known as "stripping," where the individual interest payments (coupons) and the principal (corpus) of a bond are separated and sold as individual zero-coupon securities.

The Process of Separating Each Coupon Payment, as Well as the Principal