Structured finance

Structured finance can refer to either:

• Securitisation; or
• Combining straight debt with derivative instruments to create more complex instruments.

From commercial paper to highly structured project finance

"I worked for 20 years in international debt markets, arranging large debt financing transactions in Europe, the Americas and Asia, covering every debt instrument from plain vanilla commercial paper to highly structured project finance."

The Treasurer - 2022 Issue 3 - p29 - Veronique Lafon-Vinais, executive director, careers development and corporate outreach, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

See also

• Commercial paper
• Debt capital market
• Derivative instrument
• Financial engineering
• Financial intermediary
• Intermediation
• Non-bank financial intermediaries
• Plain vanilla
• Project finance
• Securitisation
• Straight bond = straight debt