corporate finance

Learn what corporate finance means: planning and controlling company funds, securing liquidity, and understanding corporate funding decisions.

Learn what divestiture financing is and how loans support the transfer of product lines, divisions, or subsidiaries to another business entity.

Sub-optimal liquidity describes a solvent company or bank lacking sufficient cash to seize market opportunities or make worthwhile investments.

Definition of takeover: the acquisition of control of one company by another, including the purchase of a target by an acquirer or bidder.

Learn what turnover securitization is, how corporate sales are securitized, and why this financing method is especially common in the United Kingdom.

A dawn raid is a surprise takeover tactic in which a raider buys obtainable shares at market opening before the target company can respond.

Learn what turnaround financing means: fresh capital for distressed companies undergoing new management, restructuring, product changes, or market expansion.

A relocation loan is company financing for newly hired employees moving for work, often helping them purchase residential property near their new job.

Learn why investors and companies often let losses continue instead of ending unsuccessful commitments early—a documented bias in financial psychology.

Definition of industrial assets: the value of money held by nonfinancial corporations under financial accounting rules, with related capital ratio context.

An exchangeable bond lets investors exchange the security at maturity for shares in a company other than the issuer, often an affiliated company.