The inter-agency guidance outlines high-level principles related to safe and sound leveraged lending activities, including underwriting considerations, assessing and documenting enterprise value, risk management expectations for credits awaiting distribution, stress testing expectations and portfolio management, and risk management expectations. This proposed guidance would apply to all financial institutions substantively engaged in leveraged lending activities supervised by Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, collectively (the Agencies).
The Agencies are revising the inter-agency leveraged finance guidance issued in 2001. Transactions that are covered by this guidance are characterized by a borrower with a degree of financial or cash flow leverage that significantly exceeds industry norms as measured by various debt, cash flow, or other ratios.
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