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What is Lombard Loan
Lombard Loan is a term that refers to a short-term loan secured by a movable collateral (especially securities, jewelry, precious metals or rights).

Lombard Loan is a term that refers to a short-term loan secured by movable collateral (especially securities, jewelry, precious metals or rights).

Lombard loan offer:

  • Banks to clients - by a Lombard loan the bank pledge a matter and provides a loan to the client, usually at 2/3 - 3/4 of the collateral (collaterals are usually appreciated by banks themselves).
  • Central bank to commercial banks - to cover short-term lack of liquid funds. In this case, only securities referred to the Central Bank’s Lombard list can be used as a collateral. The central bank provides the loan for the Lombard rate.

Lombard Loan in practice: Lombard loan can be used by companies for a short-term financing. The big advantage is that the assets do not need to be sold, but are pledged as collateral.

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Last update: 16.08.2016

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