Short, practical articles on commercial lending and OTC derivatives — drawn from programme content and practitioner experience. Free to read. No registration required.
Eligibility rules, dilution reserves, and why the BBC — not the committed facility limit — determines how much a borrower can draw at any point.
Walk an IRS through a CCP and a bilateral CSA side by side and see exactly how the initial and variation margin mechanics diverge in practice.
Net operating income, normalisation adjustments, and why two properties with the same NOI can have very different underwriting outcomes.
The mechanics of a breach — remediation periods, lender options, waiver negotiations, and how the core banking system flags the event.
What actually happens between trade capture and settlement — confirmation, clearing, margin, collateral, and the systems involved at each stage.
The agent's role in payment waterfall execution, lender communication, covenant monitoring, and amendment processing — explained from the CBS screens.
A quick, shareable assessment on NOI normalisation, DSCR, and debt yield. Post your score to LinkedIn.
The RFR transition explained through the trade ticket — what changed in the IRS booking screens and what stayed the same.
Two products that serve similar purposes but work very differently — BBC mechanics, eligibility rules, and when a bank chooses one over the other.
New articles published regularly. Topics drawn directly from programme content and participant questions.
The Insights section covers the concepts. The programmes build the system-level practice.