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Revolving draws

As uncertainty cloaked the capital markets late last year, a number of corporates tapped committed revolving credit lines originally intended as backstop facilities. Could a potential surge in drawdowns affect banks already constrained by capital? Christopher Whittall reports

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Hard as it may be to believe in these turbulent times, cheap credit was easy to come by for much of this decade. As recently as the first half of 2007, the going remained good for borrowers, with credit spreads locked at historically low levels. And in the ultra-competitive loan business, banks looked to increase market share by extending funding to even the lowest-rated corporates while at the

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The wild world of credit models

The Covid-19 pandemic has induced a kind of schizophrenia in loan-loss models. When the pandemic hit, banks overprovisioned for credit losses on the assumption that the economy would head south. But when government stimulus packages put wads of cash in…

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