Overview
Lending to Complex Structures Overview
For a Credit Analyst, understanding complex business structures is extremely important in determining the optimal credit structure for both the financial institution and the borrower.
This course will walk you through how to understand a group of companies and the issues that come up when lending into a corporate group. We will also look at mitigation strategies to address these risks through the proposed credit structure. Next, we will help you understand the importance of borrower selection, and will work through complexity you may encounter in financial reporting. Then, we walk through how to identify beneficial ownership and control, and how this may also impact your credit decision. Finally, we cover related party relationships, and how they affect group lending.
Lending to Complex Structures Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
Understand a group of companies
- Consider issues in group lending and mitigating strategies
Understand the importance of borrower selection
Identify beneficial ownership and control in complex structures
Describe the relationships between related parties
Lending to Complex Structures is an Elective Course of CFI’s CBCAⓇ Program
CFI's Certified Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA)® Program offers skills including credit evaluation, documentation, and review procedures. For beginners to advanced users, the CBCA® program is designed to help you become a world-class credit analyst.
Who Should Take This CBCA® Course?
The Lending to Complex Structures course is perfect for any aspiring credit analysts working in insurance, underwriting, rating agencies, commercial lending, corporate credit analysis, and other areas of credit evaluation.
The exercises and tools explored in this course will be useful for any financial analyst who wishes to work in credit analysis, commercial banking, and other areas of lending and credit evaluation.
What You'll Learn
Become a certified Commercial Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA)™
Lending to Complex Structures is part of the Commercial Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA)™ certification, which includes 36 courses.
- Skills Learned Financial Analysis, Credit Structuring, Risk Management
- Career Prep Commercial Banking, Credit Analyst, Private Lending
Path To Certification
Prep Courses
7 courses from beginner to intermediate level.
01OptionalCore Courses
16 courses from beginner to intermediate level.
02RequiredElective Courses
11 courses in advanced and intermediate levels.
03OptionalGet Certified
Submit your CBCA™ checklist and order your certificate.

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