Banking & Finance

What is loss given default?

The recovery rate (RR) is the percentage of a defaulted financing that a creditor receives in final settlement of its claims on its defaulted claims (lease, loan), it comprising th...


What is long-term debt?

Long-term debt is the total principal amount of a company’s financial obligations that is to be retired after the following accounting period, including term loans, bond and notes,...


What is loan underwriting?

Loan underwriting is the process by which a potential lender originates a loan and assesses the creditworthiness a prospective borrower, from credit application or request for fina...


What is loan underpricing?

Underpricing is the setting of a loan's offer price to lenders/investors in primary syndication lower than the loan’s break price in the secondary market – analogous to bond origin...


What is loan syndication?

Syndication is the arranging, structuring, marketing and distribution of multilateral financing on a borrower’s behalf to a group (syndicate) of underwriters and/or lenders by obta...


What is loan syndication?

Syndication is the arranging, structuring, marketing and distribution of multilateral financing on a borrower’s behalf to a group (syndicate) of underwriters and/or lenders by obta...


What is loan subscription?

An invitation to participate is a solicitation sent by arrangers to short-listed participant lenders in general syndication describing the basic terms and conditions of the financi...


What is loan sales?

Unlike best-effort arrangements or club deals, arrangers must transfer all or part of their interest in the financing for the underwritten facilities to be syndicated to new lender...


What is loan pricing?

Loan pricing is the process of determining the interest rate for granting a loan, typically as an interest spread (margin) over the base rate, conducted by the bookrunners.  The pr...


What is loan novation?

Novation as used under English law is the transfer of the rights and obligations of a financing agreement in which the lenders’ commitment to advance funds still exists by discharg...


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