Creditor: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Creditor

  • a person or an entity to whom money is owed as a consequence of the receipt of goods or services in advance of payment

Wiktionary Definition for: Creditor

  • # economics A person to whom a debt is owed.

Additional Resources

"To Be Or Not To Be"...On A Creditor's Committee
From the executive summary: ‘Creditors should be aware of their options, if asked to be, or not to be on a Creditor’s Committee, as there are numerous pros and cons to evaluate when considering Committee membership. If a creditor becomes a member of a Creditor’s Committee, he/she must be aware...
Tags: Hardware, Components, Business Operations, Committee, Creditor, Monitors & Displays, Litigation
White papers 2003-01-01
Name Marjax creditor panel. (Nike Inc., Reebok International Ltd. and Etonic Inc. are members of a committee of unsecured creditors of Marjax Enterprises Inc. organizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy code) (Brief Article)
Name Marjax creditor panel Name Marjax creditor panel
Tags: Nike Inc., Reebok International Ltd.
Research articles 1991-08-19
Letter To Creditor Disputing Negative Credit Report
This template contacts a creditor directly to inquire as to the reason for a negative report on your account.
Tags: Creditor, Best Sample Letters
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Settlement Offer On Disputed Amount
This is a template for settlement offer on disputed amount. The purpose of this for is to resolve an account in dispute between a creditor and a debtor. Debtor agrees to pay to creditor and creditor agrees to accept from debtor a certain sum of money as a complete and...
Tags: Business Operations, Litigation, FreeBusinessForms.com, Creditor, Debtor, Settlement
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Monthly Partial Payment To Creditor
Use this template as a cover letter while doing partial payment to creditor. Use can modify it as per his or her requirement.
Tags: Payment, Creditor, Operational Accounting, Finance
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Assignment Of Accounts Receivable (With Non-Recourse)
This is General Assignment of Accounts by a debtor in favour of a creditor. It assigns the accounts as collateral security for specific debts to the creditor.
Tags: Creditor, Accounts Receivable, Operational Accounting, Finance
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
A trade creditor's setoff rights in bankruptcy: no slam dunk.(CREDIT COLUMN)(USAT'S Claim Against Delphi Corp.)(Column)
When a trade creditor has shipped goods or provided services to a financially distressed company that files bankruptcy, the creditor may be left with an unsecured claim that ranks at the bottom of the claims priority totem pole and enjoys slim pros When a...
Tags: bankruptcy, creditor, Delphi Corp.
Research articles 2006-01-01
Request For Balance Transfer To Account
Use this template to inform a creditor, most likely a credit card company that you wish to transfer your account balance with another creditor to this account.
Tags: Creditor, Best Sample Letters, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
SR Telecom Files for Creditor Protection Under CCAA
SR Telecom Inc. (TSX: SRX), a leading vendor of broadband wireless access solutions through its WiMAX Forum-certified symmetryMX product line, today announced that it has filed for creditor protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act CCAA, with the Quebec Superior Court.
Research articles 2007-11-19
Theory and Evidence on the Bankruptcy Initiation Problem
The bankruptcy act of 1978 placed corporate managers as debtor in possession in control of the bankruptcy process. Between 2000 and 2001 managers lost such control to creditors. The study presented in this paper examines financial ratios of firms filing for bankruptcy between 1993 and 2004 and tests the hypothesis...
Tags: Litigation, Bankruptcy, Creditor, Theory, Business Operations
White papers 2005-09-01
S&P Rates First Prefrd Creditor WB Guaranteed Issue
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Standard & Poor's CreditWire 9/18/98--The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development World Bank recently enhanced its Partial Credit Guarantee Program to include a 'rolling' interest guarantee, by which a sovereign indemnity makes the guaranteed obligation a preferred creditor status obligation of the sovereign.
Tags: S&P
Research articles 1998-09-18
Toeholds and Fire-Sales in Bankruptcy Auctions
We study the role of distressed bank debt in affecting the outcome of Swedish bankruptcy auctions. The auction determines the going-concern premium, i.e., the premium over the piecemeal liquidation value to be paid for the right to acquire the bankrupt firm as a going concern. We show that since the...
Tags: Business Operations, Financial Services, Litigation, Auction, Bankruptcy, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., Creditor, Bank
White papers 2000-11-01
Kmart lessons learned hard way.(Opinion)(board of directors to be creditor-approved)(Brief Article)
Kmart Corp.'s announcement last week that it would be assembling a new, creditor-approved board of directors may be welcome news to creditors. But for shareholders, well, it's another reminder that they never will get a financial return. This saga Kmart Corp.'s announcement last...
Tags: board, board of directors, K Mart
Research articles 2003-01-27
Creditor’s Failure to Obtain Stay of Confirmation Order Moots Appeal
This article focuses on creditor’s failure to obtain stay of confirmation order moots appeal, and states that the fourth circuit ruled that when a creditor fails to obtain a stay pending its appeal of an order confirming a chapter 11 plan of reorganization, the appeal will be moot if the...
Tags: Workforce Management, Human Resources, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, Confirmation, Creditor
White papers 2002-05-01
New Frontier Media, Inc. Arranges for Largest Creditor to Convert All of its Debt to Equity; Company Requests Hearing With Nasdaq
BOULDER, CO--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 28, 1999--New Frontier Media, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOOF) announced today that it has arranged for its largest creditor, the holder of $1,130,000 principal amount of its 8% Convertible Debentures, to convert all of its Debentures into equity of the company.
Tags: equity, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
Research articles 1999-01-29
Inform Worldwide Holdings, Inc. Announces Settlement Agreement Reached
Inform Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: IWWI) (the "Company") announced today that the Company, its principal shareholder and certain affiliates of the Company have entered into a settlement agreement with a creditor of the Company whereby a Request for Dismissal with prejudice has been submitted to the Court on December 28,...
Tags: Company, creditor
Research articles 2006-12-29
Digital Lifestyles Group Enters Agreement With Its Secured Creditor to Resolve Outstanding Debt
Digital Lifestyles Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: DLFG) announced today that it has entered an agreement with its secured creditor to resolve $2.1 million of outstanding debt owed by the Company. The Company also announced today that it has received new financing through the issuance of a convertible promissory note.
Tags: agreement, Company
Research articles 2007-04-26
Tarragon Corporation Closes $69.25 Million Property Sale and Reaches Understanding With Largest Creditor for Reinstatement of Over $550 Million of Loans
Tarragon Corporation (NASDAQ: TARR) today announced that it has closed the sales of two of its Florida rental properties for $69.25 million and that it has reached agreement with its largest creditor, General Electric Capital Corporation GECC, on the terms, which Tarragon expects to be satisfied early next week, under...
Research articles 2007-09-07
CREDITOR PLAN TO CO-MANAGE LG CARD MAY FALL APART.
SEOUL, Dec 30 Asia Pulse - A plan by creditors of LG Card Co. to put the ailing company under joint receivership is likely to be aborted because of opposition by several lenders, a creditor bank official said Tuesday. SEOUL, Dec 30 Asia Pulse...
Tags: creditor, LG Electronics Inc.
Research articles 2003-12-30
Are Longer Bankruptcies Really More Costly?
We test the widely held assumption that longer restructurings are more costly. In contrast to earlier studies, we use instrumental variables to control for the endogeneity of restructuring time and creditor return. Instrumenting proves critical to our finding that creditor recovery rates increase with duration for roughly 1½ years following...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Bankruptcy, Duration, Governor, Instrumenting, Corporate Governance, Litigation, Business Operations, Corporate Law
White papers 2006-06-01
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