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Why do banks like to make short-term, self-liquidating loans to businesses?

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Question added by Divyesh Patel , Assistant Professional Officer- Treasury , City Of Cape Town
Date Posted: 2014/11/17
Divyesh Patel
by Divyesh Patel , Assistant Professional Officer- Treasury , City Of Cape Town

Banks like to be able to see where the funds are likely to come from such that the borrower is able to use to make the required loan payments. Short term, self-liquidating loans do this since the borrowed funds are used to purchase assets that generate the needed funds.

 

VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN
by VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN , Project Execution Manager & Accounts Manager , ALI INTERNATIONAL TRADING EST.

Suppose From out of a Bank Loan for a period of5 years ==50 Taxi Cars are purchased and the borrower himself  runs a Rent a car business. The Assets created out of the Bank Loan  are cars which are rent out on a periodic basis  say, monthly and the operating income generated out of it net of expenses can be used to liquidate the entire loan without additionally resorting to other incomes by the borrower.  The Assets can also be attached to the bank by creating an hyphenation  leaving the possession of the asset to the borrower. Here Double benefit is generated by the bank-a charge on the asset and also a good performing asset with no much risk as to the repayment.  As these loans are short term and risk is being nullified and liquidated over payment of regular installments with super charges in a short period and being a highly secured loan.----this is an example of Self Liquidating Loan.

(Self Liquidating Loan:  A type of short- or intermediate-term credit that is repaid with money generated by the assets it is used to purchase. The repayment schedule and maturity of a self-liquidating loan are designed to coincide with the timing of the assets' income generation. These loans are intended to finance purchases that will quickly and reliably generate cash)

FITAH MOHAMED
by FITAH MOHAMED , Financial Manager , FUEL AND ENERGY CO for transportion petroleum materials

I think

* - Less risk

* - Increase money circulation, thereby increasing interest

* - Inflation fears

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

Some of the banks, which do not have a large capital base or large number of longer maturing deposits, like to deploy a substantial portion of funds in short-term, self-liquidating loans to businesses. This takes care of their ALM needs.

Malik Khalid Mahmood
by Malik Khalid Mahmood , Regional Finance Manager , Leosons International FZ LLC

Its easy to recover and also safeguard the principal from unexpected inflation.

Dawood Kapasi
by Dawood Kapasi , Consultant , Deloitte

Less risky.

Mohammed Salim Allana
by Mohammed Salim Allana , Compliance and Assurance Manager , United Arab Bank

The main purpose of the bank provides the short term lending is to maintain the Regulatory Liquidity Asset Ratio and3 days stress test. This is the responsibility of the ALM (asset liability management) desk in Treasury (Global markets) to ensure return the short term fixed deposits on its maturities. Also to take benefit of changes in transfer pricing rates.

Alex Al Yazouri
by Alex Al Yazouri , General Manager , Al Mushref Cooperative Society

Minimalize the risk and quick cash out for positioning. 

Asim Azaldeen Abdalrahman Mhammed
by Asim Azaldeen Abdalrahman Mhammed , Property Manager , TAAM PROPERTY

To ensure that thier money back to them in short period to reinvestment it again

Salah Othman Yousef Alshambaati
by Salah Othman Yousef Alshambaati , مدير ادارة الحسابات , شركة انفال الجديدة للتجارة والمقاولات

Agreed with the answer

VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN

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