Financial Training Partners

Helping clients take, manage, and profit from credit risk and debt structuring.


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What’s New?

Around the World!

We continue to see strong demand for risk training in the Americas and around the world.  We recently completed a swing through 6 countries in Asia, and are now busy in Canada, and with several continuing education seminars in the U.S.  While the fundamentals of company analysis and debt structuring are the same everywhere, we are careful to cusomize our seminars for the country and client base of the bankers in each class.

Work With Us

Financial Training Partners is seeking talented finance professionals and trainers to work on ad hoc projects.  Strong knowledge of credit, capital markets, or real estate finance is essential, and training experience is a plus.  If you would like to explore possibilities, click the "contact" button (above right).
Notes on Debt Structuring

Note on Debt Structuring
How to create and evaluate debt structures

•    Integrating company analysis and debt structuring
•    Debt structuring and risk
•    Steps in the debt structuring process

Note on Purpose and Repayment
How to analyze cash available to repay debt and set repayment schedules

•    Identifying sources and uses of cash
•    Analyzing ways out
•    Identifying debt financing needs
•    Sizing revolvers
•    Setting repayment schedules

Note on Intercreditor Priority
How subordination and security affect credit structure

•    Priority and credit risk
•    Contractual subordination
•    Structural subordination
•    Security
•    Statutory and effective subordination

Note on Debt Terms and Conditions
How to structure and analyze covenants, defaults and other debt terms and conditions

•    Purposes of credit terms
•    Covenant types
•    Setting covenant levels
•    Defaults and remedies
•    Bond terms


Note on Debt Pricing
How to create and interpret pricing structures for loans and bonds


•    Yield curve
•    Debt pricing structures
•    Loan pricing
•    Bond pricing
•    Interest rate swaps


Note on Bankruptcy
How bankruptcy affects priority, risk, and returns


•    Voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy
•    Reorganization
•    Priority of claims
•    Out of court restructurings
•    Bankruptcy and value