Term loan

A bank loan, typically with a floating interest rate, for a specified amount that matures in between one and ten years and requires a specified repayment schedule.

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Term to maturity
The term to maturity of a bond, commonly referred to as maturity or term, is the number of years over which the issuer has promised to meet the conditions of the obligation set out in the bond indenture. The maturity of a bond refers to the date that the debt will cease to exist, at which time the issuer will redeem the bond by paying the principal (or face value).

Short-term bonds
Bonds with a maturity of between one and five years.

Medium-term or intermediate-term bonds
Bonds with a maturity of between five and twelve years.

Long-term bonds
Bonds with a maturity of more than 12 years.

Short Term Gain
The profit realized from the sale of securities or other capital assets possessed for twelve months or less.

Volatility term structure
The volatility term structure is the variation of implied volatility with time to maturity.

Terminal value
The value at maturity.

Term structure of interest rates
The relationship between interest rates and their maturities.

Current portion of long-term dept
Those liabilities that are payable within the next 12 months, including accounts and taxes payable, and the current portion (12 months' payments) of notes payable and current liabilities.

Terms of trade
The weighted average of a nation's export prices relative to its import prices.

Terms of sale
Conditions on which a firm proposes to sell its goods services for cash or credit.

Term trust
A closed-end fund that has a fixed termination or maturity date.

Term premiums
Excess of the yields to maturity on long-term bonds over those of short-term bonds.

Term repo
A repurchase agreement with a term of more than one day.

Term insurance
Provides a death benefit only, no build-up of cash value.

Term bonds
Often referred to as bullet-maturity bonds or simply bullet bonds, bonds whose principal is payable at maturity.

Term life insurance
A contract that provides a death benefit but no cash build-up or investment component. The premium remains constant only for a specified term of years, and the policy is usually renewable at the end of each term.

Term Fed Funds
Federal funds sold for a period of time longer than overnight.

Short-term tax exempts
Short-term securities issued by states, municipalities, local housing agencies, and urban renewal agencies.

Short-term solvency ratios
Ratios used to judge the adequacy of liquid assets for meeting short-term obligations as they come due, including (a) the current ratio, (b) the acid-test ratio, (c) the inventory turnover ratio, and (d) the accounts receivable turnover ratio.

Short-term investment services
Services that assist firms in making short-term investments.

Short-term financial plan
A financial plan that covers the coming fiscal year.

Other long term liabilities
Value of leases, future employee benefits, deferred taxes and other obligations not requiring interest payments that must be paid over a period of more than 1 year.

Medium-term note (MTN)
A corporate debt instrument that is continuously offered to investors over a period of time by an agent of the issuer. Investors can select from the following maturity bands: 9 months to 1 year, more than 1 year to 18 months, more than 18 months to 2 years, etc., up to 30 years.

Long-term debt to equity ratio
A capitalization ratio comparing long-term debt to shareholders' equity.

Long-term liabilities
Amount owed for leases, bond repayment and other items due after 1 year.

Long-term financial plan
Financial plan covering two or more years of future operations.

Long-term debt ratio
The ratio of long-term debt to total capitalization.

Long-term debt/capitalization
Indicator of financial leverage. Shows long-term debt as a proportion of the capital available. Determined by dividing long-term debt by the sum of long-term debt, preferred stock and common stockholder equity.

Long-term debt
An obligation having a maturity of more than one year from the date it was issued. Also called funded debt.

Long-term assets
Value of property, equipment and other capital assets minus the depreciation. This is an entry in the bookkeeping records of a company, usually on a "cost" basis and thus does not necessarily reflect the market value of the assets.

Long-term
In accounting information, one year or greater.

Liquidity theory of the term structure
A biased expectations theory that asserts that the implied forward rates will not be a pure estimate of the market's expectations of future interest rates because they embody a liquidity premium.

Terms Sheet
This is a document outlining the investment terms of a particular investment opportunity. It defines the terms and conditions of an investment, usually as dictated by an investor. It is the negotiating document that the parties must jointly agree to before a definitive investment agreement can be drafted.

Coefficient of determination
A measure of the goodness of fit of the relationship between the dependent and independent variables in a regression analysis; for instance, the percentage of variation in the return of an asset explained by the market portfolio return.

Financial intermediaries
Institutions which channel funds from people and institutions wishing to lend to those wishing to borrow.

Terminal Elevator
An elevator located at a point of greatest accumulation in the movement of agricultural products which stores the commodity or moves it to processors.

Terminal Market
Usually synonymous with commodity exchange or futures market, specifically in the United Kingdom.

Variable rate loan
Loan made at an interest rate that fluctuates based on a base interest rate such as the Prime Rate or LIBOR.

Transaction loan
A loan extended by a bank for a specific purpose. In contrast, lines of credit and revolving credit agreements involve loans that can be used for various purposes.

Self-liquidating loan
Loan to finance current assets, The sale of the current assets provides the cash to repay the loan.

Savings and Loan association
A US-type state-chartered institution that accepts savings deposits and invests the bulk of the funds thus received in mortgages.

Project loans
Usually FHA-insured and HUD-guaranteed mortgages on multiple-family housing complexes, nursing homes, hospitals, and other development types.

Project loan securities
Securities backed by a variety of FHA-insured loan types - primarily multi-family apartment buildings, hospitals, and nursing homes.

Project loan certificate (PLC)
A primary program of Ginnie Mae for securitizing FHA-insured and coinsured multifamily, hospital, and nursing home loans.

Parallel loan
A process whereby two companies in different countries borrow each other's currency for a specific period of time, and repay the other's currency at an agreed maturity for the purpose of reducing foreign exchange risk. Also referred to as back-to-back loans.

Multifamily loans
Loans usually represented by conventional mortgages on multi-family rental apartments.

Multicurrency loans
Give the borrower the possibility of drawing a loan in different currencies.

Loan value
The amount a policyholder may borrow against a whole life insurance policy at the interest rate specified in the policy.

Loan syndication
Group of banks sharing a loan.

Loan amortization schedule
The schedule for repaying the interest and principal on a loan.

Back-end loan fund
A mutual fund that charges investors a fee to sell (redeem) shares, often ranging from 4% to 6%. Some back-end load funds impose a full commission if the shares are redeemed within a designated time, such as one year. The commission decreases the longer the investor holds the shares. The formal name for the back-end load is the contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC).

Back-to-back loan
A loan in which two companies in separate countries borrow each other's currency for a specific time period and repay the other's currency at an agreed upon maturity.

Builder buydown loan
A mortgage loan on newly developed property that the builder subsidizes during the early years of the development. The builder uses cash to buy down the mortgage rate to a lower level than the prevailing market loan rate for some period of time. The typical buydown is 3% of the interest-rate amount for the first year, 2% for the second year, and 1% for the third year (also referred to as a 3-2-1 buydown).

Bullet loan
A bank term loan that calls for no amortization.

Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932
Law that created the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and a network of regional home loan banks.

Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB)
The FHLBB is an agency responsible for regulating and controlling savings and loan institutions, superseded by FIRREA in 1989.

Bridging Loan
A short-term loan that acts as a bridge for the borrower until the borrower obtains a medium or long-term loan to replace it. (Commonly used to finance the purchase of a new house whilst awaiting the proceeds from the sale of a previous property).

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Bond indenture

A contract or agreement between the issuer and the bondholder, which sets forth all the obligations of the issuer.


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