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{{Short description|Loan agreement between entities in two countries}} |
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A ”’back-to-back loan”’ is a Financial agreement between entities in two different countries in which loans are exchanged using different currencies while maintaining the same maturity date. Each party borrows in its local currency and lends an equivalent amount to the other party. helping both sides manage foreign currency needs without directly entering the foreign exchange market. |
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A ”’back-to-back loan”’ is a loan agreement between entities in two countries in which the currencies remain separate but the maturity dates remain fixed. The gross [[interest rate]]s of the loan are separate as well and are set on the basis of the commercial rates in place when the agreement is signed.<ref name=zam>{{cite book|title=Bank contingency financing: risks, rewards, and opportunities|author=Andrew J. Zamora|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aMY44jpYyhkC&q=back+to+back+loan+definition&pg=PA74|year=1990|isbn=978-0-471-60894-3|pages=74–75|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]}}</ref> |
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Most back-to-back loans come due within 10 years, due to their inherent risks.<ref name=zam/> Initiated as a way of avoiding currency regulations, the practice had, by the mid-1990s, largely been replaced by [[Central bank liquidity swap|currency swap]]s.<ref>{{cite book|title=The handbook of international financial terms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xyL2Uw0sc5IC&q=back+to+back+loan+currency&pg=PA32|author=Peter Moles, Nicholas Terry|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|page=32|isbn=978-0-19-828885-5|year=1997}}</ref> |
Most back-to-back loans come due within 10 years, due to their inherent risks.<ref name=zam/> Initiated as a way of avoiding currency regulations, the practice had, by the mid-1990s, largely been replaced by [[Central bank liquidity swap|currency swap]]s.<ref>{{cite book|title=The handbook of international financial terms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xyL2Uw0sc5IC&q=back+to+back+loan+currency&pg=PA32|author=Peter Moles, Nicholas Terry|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|page=32|isbn=978-0-19-828885-5|year=1997}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 01:20, 6 February 2026
Loan agreement between entities in two countries
A back-to-back loan is a Financial agreement between entities in two different countries in which loans are exchanged using different currencies while maintaining the same maturity date. Each party borrows in its local currency and lends an equivalent amount to the other party. helping both sides manage foreign currency needs without directly entering the foreign exchange market.
Most back-to-back loans come due within 10 years, due to their inherent risks.[1] Initiated as a way of avoiding currency regulations, the practice had, by the mid-1990s, largely been replaced by currency swaps.[2]
One disadvantage of such agreements is asymmetrical liability – absent a specific agreement, when one party defaults on the loan, the other party may still be held responsible for repayment.[3] Another disadvantage in comparison with currency swaps is that back-to-back loan transactions are customarily recorded on banking institutions’ records as liabilities and thereby increase their capitalization requirements, while currency swaps were, during the 2000s, widely exempted from this requirement.[3]
