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Long Term Funding
''Long term funding''.


A covenant in a loan agreement which becomes effective on the occurrence of a certain event in the future. Used to enable loan agreements to have lite covenants, typically to conform to other loans of the same borrower. A common springing event is the level of utilisation of a loan facility at which time covenants such as ICR and gearing come into effect.
A covenant in a loan agreement which becomes effective on the occurrence of a certain event in the future. Used to enable loan agreements to have lite covenants, typically to conform to other loans of the same borrower. A common springing event is the level of utilisation of a loan facility at which time covenants such as ICR ([[interest cover]] ratio) and [[gearing]] come into effect.


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[[Category:Long_term_funding]]

Revision as of 18:47, 24 July 2015

Long term funding.

A covenant in a loan agreement which becomes effective on the occurrence of a certain event in the future. Used to enable loan agreements to have lite covenants, typically to conform to other loans of the same borrower. A common springing event is the level of utilisation of a loan facility at which time covenants such as ICR (interest cover ratio) and gearing come into effect.