Drawdown
A loan drawdown is the funding of an advance under an existing credit facility, increasing debt outstanding and reducing remaining availability.
Banking rules and balance-sheet measures for resolution capacity, reserve balances, credit utilization, and single-borrower exposure.
Prudential capital and lending limits shape how banks absorb losses, maintain operational liquidity, fund borrowers, and control concentrated credit exposure. Similar-sounding measures can answer very different questions, so start with the legal entity, jurisdiction, rule, and measurement date.
Eligible liabilities support bank-resolution capacity under frameworks such as MREL; they are not reservable deposits. Excess reserves compare qualifying central-bank balances with a reserve requirement and should not automatically be read as unused cash.
On the credit side, a drawdown converts available facility capacity into funded debt. A legal lending limit constrains exposure to one borrower or combined borrowers; it does not replace underwriting or internal concentration controls.
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A loan drawdown is the funding of an advance under an existing credit facility, increasing debt outstanding and reducing remaining availability.
Eligible liabilities are qualifying bank obligations that can count with own funds toward MREL and absorb losses or support recapitalization in resolution.
Excess reserves are qualifying bank reserves above the applicable required amount; they are not necessarily idle or economically surplus.
A legal lending limit caps a bank's loans and credit exposures to one borrower or combined borrowers, generally as a percentage of defined capital and surplus.