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Lombard lending

A Lombard loan is a lending facility secured against an investment portfolio. With listed and liquid securities, the loan can be issued extremely quickly – often on the same day. This efficient process and secure collateral leads to extremely competitive rates.

Lombard lending facilities can come in many forms:
fixed term loans, revolving credit facilities or even as an overdraft.
This product is highly attractive for all parties involved – borrowers, lenders and advisors.

Borrower

  • Additional credit source
  • Quick and simple process
  • No need to divest portfolio
  • Competitive rates

Lender

  • Strong credit performance
  • Highly capital efficient
  • Easily realisable collateral
  • Large and growing market

Advisor

  • Additional client proposition
  • Retain investment assets
  • Win new clients with levered portfolios
  • Defend existing AuM from disinvestment
What do we offer?

Bondsmith - Lombard lending solution suite

Bondsmith has developed a suite of tools to deliver Lombard lending to clients of financial advisors and banks who can finance the loans. These tools include

Origination

  • Automated, paperless application process
  • Electronic documentation
  • Advisor and borrower friendly dashboard

Underwriting

  • Lender dashboard
  • Application management queues and prioritisation
  • KYC and AML checks
  • Integrated compliance controls (including CCA and MCD)
  • Customisable auto-decisions, lender credit policy and appetite

Document management

  • Integrated T&C’s, key information documents
  • Borrower declarations and signatures
  • KYC and AML - Document storage

Capital reporting

  • Sophisticated capital assessment methodology ensuring most efficient risk-weightings
  • Capital assessed on per asset, portfolio and counterparty basis
  • Regulator friendly outputs

Loan monitoring

  • Integrated market data feeds
  • Daily collateral monitoring and assessment
  • Lender/advisor dashboards for ongoing monitoring
  • Customisable credit policy

Loan servicing

  • Daily loan monitoring and management
  • Annual loan reviews
  • Collections and recoveries, including margin call processing
Get in touch!

Next steps

If you are interested in any aspect of this offering, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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Bondsmith is a trading name of Bondsmith Savings Ltd. Bondsmith Savings Ltd is registered in England and Wales, No 13223331. Registered office: 124-128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NJ. Bondsmith is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011, Firm Reference 955601, for the issuing of electronic money.