Pledged Share Stock Loans Increase Year on Year Allowing Clients To Access Better Stock Loan Financing

Pledged Share Stock Loans Increase Year on Year Allowing Clients To Access Better Stock Loan Financing Pledged share stock loan financing is more popular than ever as an alternative source of liquidity for significant shareholders in UK-listed companies. We explore the reasons why the market has reached new highs in the last two years – and what will drive its growth from here. Loans backed by pledged shares in UK-listed companies are taking off as a growing number of investors look to raise money from their shareholdings. Platinum Global are an institutional investment broker that specialises in long-term asset-backed financing. The number of equity-backed loans disclosed by directors of UK-listed companies more than doubled in 2020 compared with the previous year. Based on the trend

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Stock Loans and Share Loans – We Explain More About Them In This Article

Stock Loans and Share Loans – We Explain More About Them In This Article You are a high net worth individual or financial institution or perhaps a high level company executive. You have a valuable company or personal stock portfolio and don’t want to sell any of it to meet a current cash need. A non-recourse stock loan is a financial tool that you might consider in meeting your cash and liquidity needs. Let’s look at some of the most common questions we are asked. What is a stock loan? A stock loan is what it sounds like, it is a loan against the value of shares of stock you own. We lend based on a portion of the value of the shares of stock

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Releasing Cash From Your Share Portfolio – Pledged Share Stock Loans

Pledged Share Stock Loan If you’ve ever thought about pledged share refinancing your share portfolio but were scared of the heavy lifting, chances are, you have been missing out. When the average stock portfolio holder can release cash from their existing portfolio at rates of around 3% thats not something to be sniffed at – don’t you think it’s time to stop stalling and consider your stock portfolio refinance options? There are generally two motivations for people to refinance their share portfolio – using the money to purchase another asset and pulling out equity from their stock portfolio to re-invest–  you needn’t wait for these justifications to consider getting a loan to leverage your portfolio in a bull market. One motivation is internal – I

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Alibaba Founders Pledge Company Stock For Pledged Share Loan

Chinese tycoons Jack Ma and Joe Tsai have pledged part of their combined $35bn (£25bn) stake in Alibaba in exchange for large pledged share loans from investment banks. The share pledges, which were made to lenders including UBS, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, were made by offshore companies that control half of the two billionaire’s stake in the eCommerce giant, which totaled 5.8 per cent in December. The amounts of the share pledges were not disclosed but the pair have repeatedly borrowed against their stock since Alibaba’s US listing in 2014, according to documents seen by the Financial Times. Share pledges allow banks to accept stock as collateral for loans but the borrower retains ownership of the shares. Ma and Tsai, who are Alibaba’s two

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