Unavailable personal guarantee

Supporting Expansion for a Global Telecom Manufacturer

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Bank
Oklahoma based regional bank
Borrower
Telecom parts manufacturer
Line of credit
$1,000,000
Collateral coverage
$400,000

Situation overview

  • Manufacturer of telecom components expanding its U.S. operations
  • Borrower new to the bank, with no prior relationship history
  • Borrower seeking credit to fund the U.S. expansion
  • Collateral support needed on a $1M line of credit

Underwriting concerns

  1. 01

    Unavailable personal guarantee

  2. 02

    Overseas inventory

  3. 03

    New relationship for the bank

Executives could not furnish personal guarantees on the facility. Inventory was positioned overseas, complicating valuation in terms of the borrowing base. This was also a new relationship to the bank, with no history to underwrite against.

Solution

Platform

Rapid underwriting evaluation through the CE platform.

Collateral

CollateralEdge™ provided a $400,000 collateral letter of credit, offsetting the absent personal guarantees.

Bank Control

The bank retained full control over loan structure and collateral deployment.

Benefits

The CollateralEdge value proposition is designed to align incentives with our bank customer to win a commercial loan.

  1. The bank approved a $1 million line of credit.

  2. $400K of collateral coverage offset the guarantees the borrower could not provide.

  3. The bank became integral to the borrower’s global expansion.

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