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Subordinated debt. In finance, subordinated debt (also known as subordinated loan, subordinated bond, subordinated debenture or junior debt) is debt which ranks after other debts if a company falls into liquidation or bankruptcy . Such debt is referred to as 'subordinate', because the debt providers (the lenders) have subordinate status in ...
United States law. [edit] Subordination of debt. [edit] Subordinationis the process by which a creditor is placed in a lower priority for the collection of its debt from its debtor's assets than the priority the creditor previously had,[1]In common parlance, the debt is said to be subordinated but in reality, it is the right of the creditor to ...
Subordinated debt refers to a class of obligations that are contractually subordinated in ranking to all of the senior obligations (i.e., general non-subordinated obligations) of the company, whether they are secured or unsecured. Although the second lien loan's security interest is subordinated to the first lien loan's interest in the pledged ...
Subordinated debt is debt that ranks lower than ordinary depositors of the bank. Only those with a minimum original term to maturity of five years can be included in the calculation of this form of capital; they must be subject to proper amortization arrangements.
Senior debt. In finance, senior debt is debt that takes priority over other unsecured or otherwise more "junior" debt owed by an issuer. Senior debt is frequently issued in the form of senior notes or referred to as senior loans. Senior debt has greater seniority in the issuer's capital structure than subordinated debt.
Perpetual subordinated debt is subordinated debt in the form of a bond with no maturity date for the return of principal. Such a perpetual bond means it never needs to be redeemed by the issuer, and thus pay coupon interest continually until bought back (hence, "perpetual"). Like other subordinated debt, it has claims after senior debt (hence ...
A trust-preferred security is a security possessing characteristics of both equity and debt. A company creates trust-preferred securities by creating a trust, issuing debt to it, and then having it issue preferred stock to investors. Trust-preferred securities are generally issued by bank holding companies. The preferred stock securities issued ...
Tier 1 capital is the core measure of a bank 's financial strength from a regulator 's point of view. [note 1] It is composed of core capital, [1] which consists primarily of common stock and disclosed reserves (or retained earnings ), [2] but may also include non-redeemable non-cumulative preferred stock. The Basel Committee also observed that ...