Coupon payments refer to the periodic interest payments made by a borrower to the lender on a fixed-income investment, like a bond. It is the interest that bondholders receive on their investment. Full definition
For the first half of 2011, both have reported a nominal annual income of 2 %, made up of coupon payments with the inflation adjustment. (moneysense.ca)
For financial assets such as stocks, futures returns are close to the excess total returns (including dividends, or coupon payments for bonds) of the underlying asset. (winton.com)
But receiving coupon payments from an individual bond differs from the experience of receiving distributions from a bond ETF, and that can sometimes cause confusion. (blackrockblog.com)