by Robert Tripp | Jul 21, 2008 | Articles, Banking Product Engines, Customer Relationship Management, General
Why do Banks lend to each other ? It is a natural feature of banking that at a given moment in time some banks have lent more money to their customers than they have received from their saving customers. An example might be a credit card bank like Egg or Capital One....
by Robert Tripp | Jan 25, 2006 | Articles, Banking Product Engines
The first thing to note is that the Loan Markets are booming. Partly because of relatively benign corporate conditions across the planet over the last few years; partly because of high levels of mergers and acquisitions and partly because of new players in the loan...
by Robert Tripp | Jan 25, 2006 | Articles, Banking Product Engines
The primary markets, whether for loans, bonds or equity are in many respects similar to each other. Each type of finance has a lead bank (a Book Runner) drumming up interest from other banks and/or big investors. The big differences occur in the secondary markets and...
by Robert Tripp | Jan 25, 2006 | Articles, Banking Product Engines
Let us start with the customer’s problem. In the area we are talking about the customer is almost certainly a large company with turnover and income worth many tens of millions of euros per annum. Let us call him ABC PLC and he needs a lot of money (e.g. £1Bn) to buy...
