Glossary

Pension or other post-retirement benefit plan whereby the company commits to pay a pre-agreed benefit to an employee on retirement e.g. a pension based on 60% of final salary.

Pension or other post-retirement benefit plan where the employer’s obligation is limited to its contributions to the fund.

A debt or other financial obligation is considered delinquent when one or more contractual payments are overdue. Delinquency is usually defined in terms of days past due. Delinquent and in arrears are synonymous.

A contract or agreement whose value changes with changes in an underlying index such as interest rates, foreign exchange rates, share prices or indices and which requires no initial investment or an initial investment that is smaller than would be required for other contracts with a similar response to market factors. The principal types of derivatives are: swaps, forwards, futures and options. types of contracts with a similar response to market factors. The principal types of derivatives are: swaps,

Impact on the rights attached to a share of the issue of securities (in connection with a capital increase, a merger, a stock-for-stock tender offer or the exercise of rights), assuming that there is no change in the total income of the issuer.

Portion of net profit that the Annual General Meeting decides to distribute to shareholders. The amount of the dividend is recommended by the Board of Directors. It represents the revenue on the share and the amount can vary from one year to the next depending on the company’s results and policy.

Estimate of the expected level of utilisation of a credit facility at the time of a borrower’s default. The EAD may be higher than the current utilisation (e.g. in the case where further drawings may be made under a revolving credit facility prior to default) but will not typically exceed the total facility limit.

A US Government Sponsored Enterprise. It buys mortgages, principally issued by banks, on the secondary market, pools them, and sells them as residential mortgage-backed securities to investors on the open market. Its obligations are not explicitly guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the US Government.

A credit score calculated using proprietary software developed by the Fair Isaac Corporation in the US from a consumer’s credit profile. The scores range between 300 and 850 and are used in credit decisions made by banks and other providers of credit.

A lien is a charge such as a mortgage held by one party, over property owned by a second party, as security for payment of some debt, obligation, or duty owed by that second party. The holder of a first lien takes precedence over all other encumbrances on that property i.e. second and subsequent liens.