The Syndicated Loan Market: Developments in the North American Context

Jim Armstrong

Staff Working Papers from Bank of Canada

Abstract: The author describes the rapid development of the syndicated corporate loan market in the 1990s. He explores the historical forces that led to the development of the contemporary U.S. syndicated loan market, which is effectively a hybrid of the investment banking and commercial banking worlds. He suggests that there has been a notable change in large corporate lending over the past decade, as the old bilateral bank-client lending relationships have been replaced by a world that is much more transaction-oriented and market-oriented. The Canadian syndicated loan market has been strongly influenced by its U.S. counterpart, but it is not yet at the same level of development. The author explores potential risk issues for the new corporate loan market, including implications for the distribution of credit risk in the system, risks in the underwriting process, the monitoring function, and the potential for risk arising from asymmetric information.

Keywords: Financial institutions; Financial markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G10 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2003
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