creditworthiness
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Ricci said his organization’s members “are doing their best to facilitate responsible access to life-changing education for students, including by reassessing how they evaluate creditworthiness in their loan programs.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
OpenAI announced $110 billion in equity financing in February, helping “alleviate concerns around creditworthiness and contract serviceability,” writes Mizuho analyst Siti Panigrahi.
From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026
Investors are becoming increasingly nervous about problems mounting in the $3 trillion private credit market where some creditworthiness is deteriorating in some sectors and truthful valuations are hard to ascertain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
The risk with these finance programs is that lenders could force companies to cut them back if their creditworthiness deteriorates.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
Historically, a Wall Street firm worried over the creditworthiness of its customers; its customers often took it on faith that the casino would be able to pay off its winners.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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