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Financial product to mature, being tied up (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bondage

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'financial product to mature being tied up' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'financial product to mature' is the wordplay.
'financial product' becomes 'bond' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to mature' becomes 'age' ('age' can be a synonym of 'mature').
'bond'+'age'='BONDAGE'

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(Other definitions for bondage that I've seen before include "Captivity" , "Enslavement" , "State of slavery or servitude" , "restraint" .)

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