Credit Enhancement for Business Loans: 10 Guarantee Structures
Personal, corporate and government guarantees, ECA cover, surety, credit insurance, reserves and first-loss capital. How each one helps a company get funded.
Personal, corporate and government guarantees, ECA cover, surety, credit insurance, reserves and first-loss capital. How each one helps a company get funded.
Learn when projects qualify for nonrecourse debt: offtake contracts, EPC risk, sponsor equity, permits, DSCR sizing and the limited recourse terms lenders ask for.
Issuing an SBLC and monetizing it non-recourse sounds simple. Here is why that package doesn’t exist, and which real turnkey options do.
Buying a business without a personal guarantee is possible, but fake offers are everywhere. Here are the seven traps to avoid and what real options look like.
Direct lenders raised a record USD 129bn but lent 28% less in Q3. See which private credit loan terms borrowers can negotiate and how to run the process.
Why unpaid foreign invoices are hard to recover, and how LCs, confirmation, credit insurance and receivables finance shift that risk before you ship.
Record private credit fundraising meets falling deployment, Bank of America fined USD 1.2bn, energyRe closes USD 815m solar and IndiGo signs an ECA deal.
ASIC halts an Ares credit fund, Amex fined over USD 13bn in suspected TBML, Trafigura signs a lithium offtake and Blackstone raises a credit continuation fund.
Financely is scaling its credit enhancement advisory, using guarantees, insurance wraps and risk participation to get stalled trade and project deals funded.
Three habits separate sponsors who close from sponsors who keep “almost closing.” None of them is luck.
Why lenders are outsourcing KYC, credit memos and loan operations in 2026, what the data shows, what to keep in house and how to decide.
Carrying paper closes CRE deals but locks up capital. How seller-financed commercial notes are priced, sold in full or in part, and structured for exit.