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What are Financial (Debt) Covenants?Financial Covenants, also called Debt Covenants or Banking Covenants, are restrictions contained in lending agreements between a company and its creditors that the company must operate within certain limits. They are aimed at ameliorating a common agency problem: Shareholders (who appoint the management) may benefit from taking excessive risk, to the detriment of creditors. Conditions in Financial CovenantsDebt covenants are intensively negotiated, as they require the borrower to maintain a certain financial status for the duration of the loan, and they set minimum standards for the borrowers future conduct and performance. The conditions included in debt covenants vary with the borrower's business characteristics, financial condition and loan duration. Breach of a debt covenant usually allows creditors to demand immediate repayment. This rarely happens in practice because the debtor is usually not in a position to make an immediate repayment. A breach of covenants therefore normally leads to a renegotiation of the terms of debt. The new debt is then likely to contain worse terms than the one before. This means that if a company breaches, or is in danger of breaching, its debt covenants, not only does this indicate that the company is financially weak, but also that the problems are likely to become worse as lenders react. Forms of Debt covenants. TypesDebt covenants can be differentiated into affirmative covenants and negative covenants:
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