Net leverage
“Total debt less unrestricted cash, divided by adjusted EBITDA.”
- Maximum
- 5.00x
- Testing
- Quarterly
Turn agreement terms, borrower updates, and payment records into a clearer view of portfolio risk. Spend less time rebuilding the evidence and more time evaluating what it means for the investment.
Leverage is 0.2x above the agreement threshold. Review the supporting calculation and borrower update before the next credit discussion.
Leverage is 0.2x above the agreement threshold. Review the supporting calculation and borrower update before the next credit discussion.
+0.4x since last quarter
Credit agreement · § 7.11“Net leverage must not exceed 5.00x at the end of each fiscal quarter.”Illustrative agreement extract
Private credit agreements differ in their definitions, thresholds, and reporting requirements. FirstSignals helps turn that detail into repeatable monitoring and review, with source-linked calculations and borrower context close at hand.
“Total debt less unrestricted cash, divided by adjusted EBITDA.”
“Total debt less cash capped at $5m, divided by adjusted EBITDA.”
The same ratio name can mean a different calculation. Keep the definition tied to the source.
Look beyond a single threshold result. Review historical covenant movement, borrower developments, and sector context to understand why a name needs attention and what your team should investigate next.
Track covenant compliance, headroom, liquidity indicators, and PIK exposure. Use borrower-specific context and prioritized watchlists to guide review, then prepare credit and investment committee reporting with the evidence available.
Explore RiskFrontierBring receivables, inventory, and agreement rules into borrowing base review. Validate the calculation and resolve exceptions before availability is updated.
Explore FirstBaseMatch incoming wires to expected syndicated loan payments. Review confidence-ranked proposals, investigate unresolved items, and write confirmed matches back to the core platform.
Explore FirstFlowReduce the manual work around monitoring and reporting. Give analysts and portfolio managers a shared starting point for review, with the calculations, sources, and borrower context available to challenge and interpret.
Agreement-specific covenant tests
Borrower history and risk context
Supporting calculations and sources
Review notes and questions
Connect to existing systems and review deployment, access, and approval requirements with your team.
Discuss on-premises, private cloud, or hybrid deployment around your infrastructure and data requirements.
Encrypted ingestion and storage support the handling of sensitive credit and payment data.
Align user access with team responsibilities and identity management requirements.
Use APIs to connect supported workflows with core platforms and data infrastructure.
Review the sources, calculations, and decision records behind the result.
Bring credit judgment and payment exceptions into human review, with documented decisions.
Built by former Microsoft Core AI engineers and experienced banking and buy-side executives.
Walk through your monitoring priorities, reporting needs, and current systems. Then define the scope of a practical evaluation.
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