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  2. Debt restructuring - Wikipedia

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    Agreements to swap debt for equity also often occur because companies are obliged to comply, per the terms of a contract with certain lending institutions, with specified debt to equity ratios. [4] Debt-for-equity swaps are one way of dealing with sub-prime mortgages. A householder unable to service his debt on a $180,000 mortgage for example ...

  3. Shareholder loan - Wikipedia

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    Shareholder loan is a debt-like form of financing provided by shareholders. Usually, it is the most junior debt in the company's debt portfolio. On the other hand, if this loan belongs to shareholders it could be treated as equity. [1] Maturity of shareholder loans is long with low or deferred interest payments.

  4. Debt-to-equity ratio - Wikipedia

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    A company's debt-to-equity ratio (D/E) is a financial ratio indicating the relative proportion of shareholders' equity and debt used to finance the company's assets. [1] Closely related to leveraging , the ratio is also known as risk , gearing or leverage .

  5. Subordinated debt - Wikipedia

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    In finance, subordinated debt (also known as subordinated loan, subordinated bond, subordinated debenture or junior debt) is debt which ranks after other debts if a company falls into liquidation or bankruptcy. Such debt is referred to as 'subordinate', because the debt providers (the lenders) have subordinate status in relationship to the ...

  6. Tangible common equity - Wikipedia

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    Tangible common equity (TCE), the subset of shareholders' equity that is not preferred equity and not intangible assets, [1] [2] is an uncommonly used measure of a company's financial strength. It indicates how much ownership equity owners of common stock would receive in the event of a company's liquidation .

  7. Thin capitalisation - Wikipedia

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    An entity's debt-to-equity funding is sometimes expressed as a ratio. For example, a gearing ratio of 1.5:1 means that for every $1 of equity the entity has $1.5 of debt. A high gearing ratio can create problems for: creditors, which bear the solvency risk of the company, and; revenue authorities, which are concerned about excessive interest ...

  8. Capital requirement - Wikipedia

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    Capital requirements govern the ratio of equity to debt, recorded on the liabilities and equity side of a firm's balance sheet. They should not be confused with reserve requirements, which govern the assets side of a bank's balance sheet—in particular, the proportion of its assets it must hold in cash or highly-liquid assets. Capital is a ...

  9. Net capital rule - Wikipedia

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    Lehman Brothers reported a debt to equity ratio of 54.2 to 1 in its first Form 10-Q Report on the SEC's website (for the first fiscal quarter of 1994). All nine of Lehman's 10-Qs filed in 1997 through 1999 show higher debt to equity ratios than any of its 10-Qs filed after 2004. [98]