Finance: Wellfleet Bank
Introduction:
The Gatwick Gold Corporation business credit proposal brought Wellfleet Bank with an opportunity to obtain a highly profitable deal and conduct a new and long-term relationship with the third-largest gold producer in the world, and a number of “broader issues” at same time. Corresponding to the attitude the Chief Risk Officer Cromwell holds for risk, ensuring the risk infrastructure is growing with business opportunities at same speed. Identifying and measuring all risks involved in any deals becomes a crucial and high priority mission in such risky environment.
Question 1:
First, it is important and necessary to identify all the kind of risk Wellfleet Bank faces in this strategy.
Syndicated and leveraged loans have played important roles in Wellfleet Banks’ corporate bank business since 2004. Facility for Gatwick Gold Corporation, with a large amount of debt already, a 1-year bridging loan of $1billion is considered as a leveraged loan. Gatwick Gold Corporation had committed a $50 million facility before. A sudden increase in this limit by $1 billion surprised relationship manager Jaidev Kapoor, who had 10-year working experience in Wellfleet. In addition, a syndicated loan agreement is the kind of loan in which a borrower requires a large or sophisticated facility or multiple types of facility by the channel through funding from a group of lenders. It facilitates the loan process by combining several separate bilateral loans, each with different terms and conditions, into one agreement between the borrower and the whole group of banks. Term loan facility and revolving loan facility are the two major types of facility commonly syndicated. Under a term loan facility, lenders only provide a specified amount of capital over the period of loan at a fixed interest rate. In contrast, lenders provide an aggregate amount of capital in several times over the period of loan at a flexible interest rate under a revolving loan facility. Therefore, an
The Gatwick Gold Corporation business credit proposal brought Wellfleet Bank with an opportunity to obtain a highly profitable deal and conduct a new and long-term relationship with the third-largest gold producer in the world, and a number of “broader issues” at same time. Corresponding to the attitude the Chief Risk Officer Cromwell holds for risk, ensuring the risk infrastructure is growing with business opportunities at same speed. Identifying and measuring all risks involved in any deals becomes a crucial and high priority mission in such risky environment.
Question 1:
First, it is important and necessary to identify all the kind of risk Wellfleet Bank faces in this strategy.
Syndicated and leveraged loans have played important roles in Wellfleet Banks’ corporate bank business since 2004. Facility for Gatwick Gold Corporation, with a large amount of debt already, a 1-year bridging loan of $1billion is considered as a leveraged loan. Gatwick Gold Corporation had committed a $50 million facility before. A sudden increase in this limit by $1 billion surprised relationship manager Jaidev Kapoor, who had 10-year working experience in Wellfleet. In addition, a syndicated loan agreement is the kind of loan in which a borrower requires a large or sophisticated facility or multiple types of facility by the channel through funding from a group of lenders. It facilitates the loan process by combining several separate bilateral loans, each with different terms and conditions, into one agreement between the borrower and the whole group of banks. Term loan facility and revolving loan facility are the two major types of facility commonly syndicated. Under a term loan facility, lenders only provide a specified amount of capital over the period of loan at a fixed interest rate. In contrast, lenders provide an aggregate amount of capital in several times over the period of loan at a flexible interest rate under a revolving loan facility. Therefore, an