RE: Shindig12 Dec 2023 22:30
"Credit is a process where risk is identified, understood, managed and mitigated to a point where it is worth lending into."
Or not, as the case may be.
In any normal bank, the borrower can't appeal to the committee or finesse their case. The borrower is always kept one stage removed from the decision. There will be an internal promoter, advocate, call them what you will, who will put the case together, but the credit committee's decision is sovereign.
Given the changing nature of the risks - new ones come to the fore weekly - the bank will want a lot more return than on a normal 'back the business' cashflow lend, and a lot more security (more than is inherently available?) in case something does detonate.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, somebody sees more risk than they're up for. And while they're not saying no - yet - they're not saying yes either.
This gives Harry many problems, chief among them that he is powerless to influence the faceless committee.
Hence the ever expanding timeline stretching off into the sunset.