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A loan covenant is a condition in a commercial loan or bond issue that requires the borrower to fulfill certain conditions or which forbids the borrower from undertaking certain actions, or which possibly restricts certain activities to circumstances when other conditions are met.
Negative covenants may be continuous or incurrence-based. Violations of negative covenants are rare compared to violations of affirmative covenants. With most debt (including corporate debt, mortgages and bank loans) a covenant is included in the debt contract which states that the total amount owed becomes immediately payable on the first ...
A breach of covenant is the violation of a contractual promise. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Cov-lite (or "covenant light") is financial jargon for loan agreements that do not contain the usual protective covenants for the benefit of the lending party. Although traditionally banks have insisted on a wide range of covenants that allow them to intervene if the financial position of the borrower or the value of underlying assets deteriorates, around 2006 the increasing strength of ...
Those interested in joining a credit union should know that not all credit unions are NCUA insured. Some state-chartered credit unions carry private deposit insurance rather than NCUA insurance.
4 tips for investing in zero-coupon bonds. Consider your financial goals. The biggest thing to remember about zero-coupon bonds is that they’re intended to be long-term investments that don’t ...
In Australia, negative pledge lending took off after a substantial deal by Pioneer Concrete in 1978. [1] It was a new way of lending, which allowed the banks to lend to corporations, something previously the domain of life insurers. Negative pledge clauses are almost universal in modern unsecured commercial loan documents.
Predatory lending refers to unethical practices conducted by lending organizations during a loan origination process that are unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent. While there are no internationally agreed legal definitions for predatory lending, a 2006 audit report from the office of inspector general of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) broadly defines predatory lending as ...