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The NPL Is Too Late: Why Stressed Loans Need an Asset Record Before Default

India’s largest asset-reconstruction market is starting to move upstream from buying non-performing loans into servicing loans before they become NPAs. Asset Reconstruction Company (India), or Arcil, is launching collections-as-a-service for banks and other financial institutions, explicitly targeting SMA-1 and SMA-2 accounts as well as NPAs. The shift matters because a loan does not suddenly become an operationally complex asset on day 91. Payment events, contact history, promises to pay,...

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When a Loan Portfolio Becomes Central-Bank Collateral: Eligibility Is an Asset State

British banks are increasingly mobilising less-liquid credit assets through the Bank of England’s Sterling Monetary Framework. Level C collateral held by the Bank more than doubled over the year to £17.8 billion, while the eligible universe includes residential mortgages, consumer and auto loans, asset finance, corporate and SME loans and other loan portfolios. The deeper lesson is that a loan does not become central-bank collateral merely because it exists: eligibility depends on portfolio...

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When Margin Moves Every Day: Why Collateral Eligibility Has Become a Live Asset State

Mainland China’s variation-margin requirements for in-scope non-centrally cleared derivatives took effect on 1 September 2026. The important change is not simply that more collateral must move. A security or cash balance can move repeatedly between available inventory, eligible collateral, haircut-adjusted value, posted margin, disputed margin, substituted collateral and returned collateral. That turns collateral eligibility from a static attribute into a live, counterparty-specific and...

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When the Collateral Is Compute: What a GPU-Backed Loan Actually Owns

GPU-backed private credit is developing into a distinct form of equipment and infrastructure finance. Bullish provided USD.AI with a $100 million stablecoin-based facility in August 2026 to support loans secured by high-performance computing assets, while USD.AI reported more than $281 million of lifetime deployed capital across GPU financings by month-end. The challenge is that the collateral is mobile, rapidly depreciating, technically specialised and economically dependent on data-centre...

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