Learn about Synthetic Letters of Credit (SLCs), pre-funded instruments used in international trade to guarantee payments and mitigate risks like counterparty and currency issues.

A debt fund is an investment pool, such as a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund, in which core holdings are fixed income investments.

The EBA’s February 9 discussion paper (EBA/DP/2026/01) is pitched as a fact-finding exercise rather than a set of settled proposals. Stakeholders have until May 10 2026 to submit feedback via the ...

This article was written by Jerome Barkate, Nakul Nair, Zane Van Dusen, and Scott Coulter. We are witnessing a remarkable period in the credit markets. Following years of accommodative monetary ...

Credit ratings are a key component in evaluating the security of a bond, as well as bond mutual funds and ETFs. Therefore, investors need to understand what credit ratings mean, how to use these ...

Artem Lalaiants is the Founder and CEO of RiskSeal with 10+ years in fintech and deep expertise in alternative credit risk scoring. In digital lending, the first risk decision isn’t about ...

About the author: Amit Seru is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a Steven and Roberta Denning professor of finance at the Stanford ...

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Fifth Third rebounded sharply after its 2023 crash. Its low-duration securities have recouped their unrealized losses, and the bank has maintained strong net interest margins. FITB's price-to-tangible ...