Learn about Synthetic Letters of Credit (SLCs), pre-funded instruments used in international trade to guarantee payments and mitigate risks like counterparty and currency issues.

Credit ratings are a key component in evaluating the security of a bond, as well as bond mutual funds and ETFs. Therefore, investors need to understand what credit ratings mean, how to use these ...

A debt fund is an investment pool, such as a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund, in which core holdings are fixed income investments.

The EBA’s February 9 discussion paper (EBA/DP/2026/01) is pitched as a fact-finding exercise rather than a set of settled proposals. Stakeholders have until May 10 2026 to submit feedback via the ...

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About the author: Amit Seru is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a Steven and Roberta Denning professor of finance at the Stanford ...