Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance & Investment

Finance & Investment articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA			2	5				7
FL		2						2
GA	1	4	13	25				43
B	30	91	156	192				469
C	26	224	547	1,557			2	2,356
Start	6	246	1,305	6,209			3	7,769
Stub		50	592	3,815			1	4,458
List	2	9	78	270	19			378
Category					2,774	2		2,776
Disambig					43			43
File					599			599
Portal					1			1
Project					18			18
Redirect		2	69	213	307			591
Template					312			312
NA					6			6
Other					34			34
Draft					196			196
Assessed	65	628	2,762	12,286	4,309	2	6	20,058
Unassessed				1			3	4
Total	65	628	2,762	12,287	4,309	2	9	20,062
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 76,510			Ω = 5.07

The aim of this project is to make Wikipedia an authoritative, current, and useful site for anyone interested in better understanding the field of finance. It aims to make the world a better place by demystifying the workings of financial markets, its actors, and the underlying concepts.

Scope

Finance is based on fundamental concepts in economics, but focuses on real-world phenomena and business practices. This project encompasses:

• corporate finance, i.e. the decisions made by firms in need of financing to implement their business strategies such as expansion, market entrance or exit, and associated regulatory and other externalities;
• investment finance, both providers of financing with the expectation of a return on investment and methodologies used by such entities to realize returns

The project includes matters related to the risk of these activities. Specific finance and investment companies are within the scope of this project, as well as financial market structures and the financial industry in general.

The Finance & Investment project is a subset of Business and Economics. Since it is a large, complex, and important contributor to the global economy and society at large, it warrants its own wikiproject.

Goals and objectives

The goals of this project are to:

• Provide guidelines, recommendations, and standards for articles related to the field of finance and the many related subtopics
• Provide overarching conceptual frameworks to ensure that articles are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive, including navigational devices and knowledge taxonomy, as needed
• Provide a forum for discussing topics related to articles about the field of finance

The objectives of this project are to:

• Organize the topical structure of the field, primarily by way of navigational templates
• Recruit additional members
• Identify clear gaps in article topics
• Agree on quality standards and requirements for articles
• Assess and prioritize improvement needs for existing articles
• Bring second article up to Featured Article status

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Ways to help

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• Category:Economic policy stubs
• Category:Economics and finance stubs
• Category:Bank stubs, Category:Insurance company stubs, Category:Financial services company stubs
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More ways

1. Add the {{WikiProject Finance & Investment}} tag to articles about finance
2. Assess articles: Category:Unassessed Finance & Investment articles (See also assessment department)
3. Respond to the backlog of requests on this page
4. Work on refactoring the project talk page
5. Subdivide more usefully Category:Economics and finance stubs (See WikiProject Stub sorting)
6. Improve Outline of finance
7. Improve on this page and all subpages of this page
8. Seek out and improve articles that do not meet Wikipedia's core content policies: No original research, Verifiability, and Neutral point of view. There are numerous finance articles that are unreferenced, inadequately referenced, or lacking adequate inline citations, which may contain original research. Articles lacking in these areas should undergo radical improvement so that they reference material published by reliable sources.

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Did you know

• 28 Dec 2024 – 1999–2001 Liechtenstein financial crisis (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TheBritinator (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Dec 2024 – Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Jpatokal (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Dec 2024 – Tellus (app) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Red-tailed hawk (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 06 Jan 2025 – RBC Direct Investing (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Taking off shortly (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 04 Jan 2025 – Mixin Network (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 89KimberlyRoad (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 01 Jan 2025 – Flow-through share (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Laterthanyouthink (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 27 Dec 2024 – Cashfree (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Yuvaank (t · c); see discussion (13 participants; relisted)
• 31 Dec 2024 – Propeller Venture Accelerator (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Imcdc (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 07 Jan 2025; see discussion (4 participants)
• 30 Dec 2024 – List of investment banks in Uganda (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Imcdc (t · c) was closed as merge by Explicit (t · c) on 06 Jan 2025; see discussion (4 participants)
• 27 Dec 2024 – Asset.tv (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Imcdc (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 05 Jan 2025; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
• 22 Dec 2024 – Aditya Birla Sun Life Asset Management (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by TCBT1CSI (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 05 Jan 2025; see discussion (2 participants; relisted)

Redirects for discussion

• 07 Jan 2025 – Adrian Dittman (talk · edit · hist) →Elon Musk was RfDed by FallingGravity (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Dec 2024 – Adrian Dittmann (talk · edit · hist) →Elon Musk RfDed by Apokrif (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Requests for comments

• 26 Dec 2024 – Elon Musk (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Firecat93 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 03 Jan 2025 – Bank charge (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Bank fee by Tiggerjay (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Jan 2025 – Yotta Savings (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Yotta by White 720 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 25 Dec 2024 – SIX Interbank Clearing (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to SIX Group by Викидим (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Nov 2024 – Exit consent (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Debt restructuring by Bearian (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Oct 2024 – Option pool shuffle (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Employee stock option by Lizthegrey (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 02 Jan 2025 – Draft:Serhiy Kozak (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Skozak83 (t · c)
• 26 Dec 2024 – Draft:Folionet (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jalvarezes (t · c)
• 13 Dec 2024 – Draft:The Structured Finance Association (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AustinCan1 (t · c)
• 13 Dec 2024 – Draft:Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hollowmollow (t · c)
• 12 Dec 2024 – Draft:Infolegale (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pauaime (t · c)
• 06 Dec 2024 – Draft:Grafa (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Cooldudeseven7 (t · c)
• 03 Dec 2024 – Draft:Fi-compass (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Segments (t · c)
• 03 Dec 2024 – Draft:Barnabas Szabo (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2001:4C4D:1E9F:E000:2146:8D25:E359:A0B (t · c)
• 29 Nov 2024 – Draft:Peter Bacchus (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Matthew Lampard (t · c)
• 21 Nov 2024 – Draft:Life Insurance Association (Ireland) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 185.31.99.167 (t · c)

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Universal Basic Income is a currently inactive WikiProject in need of revival.

Categories

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Templates

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Templates Created

Top Level

• Template:Finance sidebar

Second Level

• Template:Financial markets - equivalent to financial products. The types of exchanges that take place within finance, particularly secondary markets
• Template:Financial market participants - the types of organizations that participate in financial markets, whether as principals, intermediaries, or facilitators
• Template:Corporate Finance - the technologies, activities, practices, and solutions that are employed by organizations that have financing needs
• Template:Personal finance - topics related to individual and household financial management
• Template:Public finance - conventions, activities, and institutions related to governmental financing needs
• Template:Banking - types of financial intermediaries that assume risk in financial transactions
• Template:Financial regulation - the structure of laws and rules that govern financial transactions

Lowest Level

Templates to be Created

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Lowest Level

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Financial Markets

• Template:Bond market
• Template:Stock market
• Template:Derivatives market (renamed Template:Financial derivatives)
• Template:Other financial markets (to include OTC, Real Estate, Forex)

Corporate Finance

• Template:Structured finance (to include Credit Rating Agency and M&A)
• Template:Accounting and Auditing (to include Financial Statements)
• Template:Financial Risk Management (to include Capital budgeting)

Personal Finance

• Template:Retirement (to include Financial Advisors, Financial Planner, Estate Planning)
• Template:Employment contract
• Template:Credit and Debt

Public Finance

• None for Public Finance

Banks and Banking

• Template:International Banking (to include all Central Banks)
• Template:Central Banks
• Template:Federal Reserve System
• Template:Banking

Financial regulation

• Templage:Financial regulation and Legislation (to include Legislation, Fraud)
• Template:Designations and Accredations

History of finance

• Template:History of finance
• Template:Corporate finance and investment banking

Old templates

• Template:Financial markets
• Template:Finance sidebar
• Template:Securities
• Template:Financial derivatives - renamed Template:Derivatives market
• Template:Economics
• Template:FOREX - redirected to Template:Foreign Exchange

Requests

Please add to this list any pages that need to be improved or created.

• Immunization (Finance): there's a lot of good explanation here, but it contains only one citation. Needs additional citations to improve verifiability. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 10:39, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

• Environmental finance Requesting assessment. The article has started as a stub but I have contributed signifacntly and believe it is at least a C class article. Thanks!

• Draft:Banpará, on a Northern Brazilian regional bank. I think it's good enough and I've added many examples of its notability Richevans69 (talk) 00:27, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

• Draft:EvoShare, an AfC on a fintech startup that among other things, just launched a partnership with Paylocity, needs review and approval. It was added to this wikiproject by user Worldbruce. --TDuVal (talk) 18:13, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

• Draft:Credinka, a Peruvian microlender. I just created this stub but I'm going to need help adding content from third-party sources. Maybe this subject doesn't warrant its own article, though, and it's better to make an article for its parent company, the Diviso Group, with a section for Credinka. Even the parent company doesn't have an article on Spanish Wikipedia, which has me worried. Qzekrom (talk) 17:21, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

• Malta Files --Xwejnusgozo (talk) 13:17, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

• User:MylaraLout/sandbox: I'm no expert, but this sandbox draft -- the sole work of the editor, put here in October -- looks like they took the Index trading article and mixed in random references to Binary options. I suspect a stealth spam tactic here, but could someone who is actually competent take a look and confirm? --Calton | Talk 15:50, 13 June 2017 (UTC) . Response --Attack68(13/6/2017): I disagree it is a stealth spam tactic but the article is poor and contains many incorrect statements. For example Index Trading is not also know as binary option trading. Indices do not always represent the top stocks on an exchange. I could go on. The page is also vague with links to a narrow set of exogenous influencing factors. I recommend this sandbox page in its current form is inaccurate and unhelpful.
• The Dynamic currency conversion should be explained thoroughly by an expert discussing pros and cons in detail from neutral pov.
• The Commodity Futures Trading Commission lists the five current commissioners. As you can see, only one, the chair, has an article.
  • Biographies of Federal agencies are easy to do, because the agency websites have biographies, and other websites have more information about nominees/commissioners. I have done several myself, but right now I am working in other areas, especially Municipal authority (Pennsylvania) connected agencies, such as those shown in List of municipal authorities in Philadelphia. Please consider doing some biographies of these commissioners.
    • Gary Gensler
    • Michael Dunn
    • Jill E. Sommers
    • Bart Chilton
    • Scott D. O'Malia--DThomsen8 (talk) 14:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

• United States financial sector - redlink. Mike Serfas (talk) 18:16, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Created redirect to Economy of the United States#Finance, which has main articles Banking in the United States and Insurance in the United States. Maybe a standalone article is warranted, though. Qzekrom (talk) 17:10, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

• William Toy - just created, based on source cited; please review and update with current information if available / known. Thanks Fintor (talk)

• Category:Real options - please check the categorisation of this category, and add articles as appropriate. Thanks. Fintor (talk) 07:56, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

• Special dividend - wording is really confusing on this tiny article. The small amount of info might be better integrated into the dividend article. I don't understand exactly what is being pointed out in several places, so I'll leave it to someone with better knowledge of the topic and sources. --Mmdoogie (talk) 03:38, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

• Trinomial tree - please check: expanded significantly. Thanks. Fintor (talk) 11:32, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

• I'd like to see the history of the carried interest 'loophole'. When was it passed, at least?Craig234
• Angel investor could use a rewrite from more authoritative references. --Ronz (talk) 03:45, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

• Dividend Equivalent Payments

That seems to be one not really trivial aspect of the HIRE Act

( ... or better not really sure to get the right infos as non-expert in this subject and to make matters worse in awareness of my alien English)

It would be nice, if a native speaker & expert could clarify this knowledge gap! (Jaybear (talk) 16:42, 21 December 2012 (UTC))

• Super Bowl indicator - The section on Accuracy is misleading in that, while the correlation between which league wins the Super Bowl and stock bull markets is good, it's just a coincidence (which is why the article calls it a myth). I'd like to see some explanation of that. I might work something up for others to poke at, but don't be afraid to beat me to it. Scott Snelson (talk) 04:31, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

• Financial economics - just "completed" a major re-write. Please review the article, as well revisit its quality-rating. Fintor (talk) 07:59, 7 March 2014 (UTC). Please review changes of last few days. Fintor (talk) 12:59, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

• Please review the recent expansion of Lattice model (finance). Fintor (talk) 09:12, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

• Emmanuel Lemelson - I would appreciate some assistance with these two pages (see the respective talk pages here: [1] and here: [2] for more detail). While the two pages have drawn the interest and involvement of a couple experienced editors, they are not unfortunately at all familiar with the investment or finance fields. One wrote an entire paragraph about the subject owning a stock, which he had actually shorted, and was prepared to let that stand as accurate until I intervened. Another is asking basic questions about basic functional roles, like "activist investor" (which applies to the subject), and another is removing en masse notable information about the subject's investment activism and replacing it with trivial information about the subject's vastly less encyclopedic early career.

Before some of the destructive, minimizing, confusing and POV edits of the past few weeks, this was be a pretty good page. See, for instance, this version: [3].

Thanks for any assistance. Orthodox2014 (talk) 18:53, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Emmanuel Lemelson (amended) - This request has taken on some greater urgency since it now includes documentably inaccurate, likely libelous content. I've documented these urgent concerns here: [4].

The article has in recent weeks had inserted documentably innacurate content and other destructive edits, including a wholesale removal of a notable section.

I am proposing that the page be reverted back to this version before the inaccurate/libelous content was added: [5]. I am not defending this earlier version as perfect but it is at least accurate (no editors dispute that. From it, proposed revisions to it can and should be discussed on the now extensive talk page. I also am soliciting the input of subject editors, since the current active editors have made repeated, egregious mistakes, many of which stand in the current live version. Thanks for your attention/assistance. Orthodox2014 (talk) 01:22, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

• There are a number of missing articles related to actuarial science. For example, standard property and casualty reserving techniques such as chain-ladder have no articles and are, in my opinion, notable. -KaJunl (talk) 01:32, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

• History of Money has multiple issues, see the talkpage. Alæxis_¿question? 06:25, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

• Please help us with publishing an article for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Meemic_Insurance_Company

Requests backlog

• Meat and Livestock Australia Hi, I have expanded this article over the past few months and the article has reached a C-class article status. Assessment against the b-class article criteria would be highly appreciated. Thank you! Umbrella.Won (talk) 01:31, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
• Net capital rule - This article really needs someone with regulatory knowledge and the expertise to interpret the online news articles covering the post-2004 changes to this topic. I've done some work on the intro (watch for subtle bias throughout), but the rest of the article (and the ghastly footnote section) reads like a lawyer trying to make sense out of a bunch of primary documents.—DMCer™ 14:59, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
• Debt-to-capital ratio - This is a short job, but it's been requesting attention from an expert in the economics portal for ~2 years. It just needs a bit of cleanup (there's talk of including it in Template:Stock market once this happens). Thanks.—DMCer™ 14:59, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
• Put option - I believe the formula listed for calculating the premium paid to the seller of a put contract is flawed completely undermining article.SamISmyth (talk) 06:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
• Debt coverage ratio - Not sure how active this project is, but I tripped over this page while doing work for Wikify project. This article needs help badly. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 03:59, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

• The Debt coverage ratio and Debt service coverage ratio pages should be merged. Finnancier 12:05, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

• Done. Finnancier 12:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

• Forex swap and Currency swap - The Forex swap as well as the Currency swap page needs to be review as it is not completely correct. There also seems to be some confusion regarding currency swaps? And cross currency interest rate swaps. It seems that the two mentioned pages details are mixing the foreign exchange type of swap with the interest rate derivative type of swap. An FX Swap / Currency Swap should be defined as: Two Foreign Exchange transactions executed simultaneously Trade 1 spot FX trade and Trade 2 a forward FX trade. Example: BUY USD ag JPY value spot and SELL USD ag JPY forward. This has nothing to do with fixed rate or floating rates or any type of interest rate derivatives. There seems to be some confusion over "FX Swaps" "Currency Swaps" and Interest rate derivatives such as and overnight index swaps (OIS). Jake2pt.lu 18:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

• Agreed. I have removed the paragraph in the Forex swap page that reads: "The fixed rate in this transaction is the forward rate that is locked in by the forward contract. The floating rate will be the overnight rate that is realized on a daily basis by the spot transaction. Typically, the floating side of these trades are indexed to the Overnight Index Swap (OIS) rate. This rate is an average of the rates that are paid based on a survey." Are there other changes that need to be made? Finnancier 12:24, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

• Payday loan and Predatory lending - The payday loan article has suffered from back and forth editing from both sides of this issue and could use the expertise of financial editors who can cut through the lobbying/pr/advocate/other noise stuff to get to the encyclopedic tone and sources. I can usually help with sourcing, but please see the article history and Talk:Payday loan. Flowanda | Talk 02:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
• Enhanced indexing This article needs more clarity to explain the underlying concept. References to related articles would be helpful. Neeraj Shokeen 08:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

• I've removed information that is repeated on the passive management and active management pages. I've also rewritten the article to remove any advertising material (although the term "enhanced indexing" is, to some extent, an advertising gimmick by investment companies). Please feel free to revert the changes, or post a follow-up request below. Finnancier 05:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

• Currency pair and percentage in point: The currency pair page contains a lot of information on pips, when there is an existing stub on percentage in point. Both pages need work. Finnancier 15:21, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
• Repurchase agreement, Federal funds rate and LIBOR - what is the relationship between these rates? In the US context, the Fed can directly affect the repo rate (i.e., the rate for secured loans with the highest quality collateral) so as to indirectly affect the Fed funds rate (i.e., the rate for unsecured loans between banks for funds held at the Fed). LIBOR is for unsecured loans between banks for funds not held at the Fed. Is that correct? If so, should this relationship be made clear in each of the respective articles? Finnancier (talk) 12:28, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

LIBOR and the other rates are not related at source. Only their spheres of influence may be the same, but even then, exactly what effect they have on the markets may be dissimilar. I think we can add some information about such things. Nshuks7 (talk) 15:20, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

What's left to do in this? Can someone spot what needs to be done? Nshuks7 (talk) 16:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

• Yield spread, Yield curve spread, TED spread, Mortgage yield, etc. - Foundational concepts about yields and spreads should be explained clearly. But we also need to rethink how these very similar pages are related to one another. Some of them are confusingly similar. Finnancier (talk) 15:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

*Mezzanine loan and mezzanine capital should be merged under the former heading. Finnancier (talk) 06:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Maybe it should be standardized like this: Senior debt and Subordinated debt, of which Mezzanine debt is an example. Finnancier (talk) 07:14, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Merger completed moving mezzanine loan into mezzanine capital which is a distinct asset class|► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk) 03:11, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Should these types of debt be broken down further? I know that CDS contracts, which are on the company/capital tier level, are broken down into Secured Debt, Senior Unsecured Debt, Subordinated Unsecured Debt, Junior Subordinated Unsecured Debt and Preference Shares for Bond CDS and First Lien, Second Lien, Third Lien and Mezzanine for Loan CDS. Should we have articles on each or are some just types within other types? Is there some sort of hierarchy here?--Terets (talk) 22:18, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Trying to break down "mezzanine" into finer tiers is not a productive exercise. It would be more useful to explicate the various ways that mezzanine debt can be structured and compare and contrast the benefits and risks to the various parties. It is almost impossible to enumerate, much less quantify or rank, the various ways that mezzanine debt can be structured.

As a similar point, there is no reason to distinguish between CDS Second Lien and CDS Third Lien, any more than it would make sense to have a separate article on Fourth Lien or Fifth Lien or Sixth Lien or Seventh Lien. They all work the same way, and their rank in the capital structure is obvious. If you understand how a second lien works, you understand all the rest.

By definition, "mezzanine" is between two other layers of capital, the same way the mezzanine in a building lobby sits above one story but below the "next" story. It is not really a story itself; it is that which is in between.

Mezzanine debt in commercial real estate is usually structured as a senior loan secured by the stock of a special company that owns a property and doesn't own anything else. The company's property is mortgaged. There may also be a second mortgage and a third mortgage, etc. If any mortgage holder forecloses on the company and takes the property, then the company doesn't have any assets (since its only asset was the property). Now the mezzanine is a senior loan secured by the stock of a company that has no assets. IE the mezz is worthless. It's still a senior loan, but it will never collect any money. So in a sense, it ranks below all of the mortgages, even though the mezzanine has a first lien on the stock of the company.

It's similar to a junior mortgage, except that if you default on a junior mortgage, the junior mortgage holder can force a foreclosure sale of the property. That might result in a distressed sale which doesn't generate enough money to pay the senior debt. So the first mortgage holders often will not permit junior mortgages. But they will permit mezzanines, because in the worst case, the mezzanine holder only has exactly the same rights as the equity. The worst thing the mezzanine holder can do (from the perspective of the mortgage holder) is take the company's stock and then control the company. But then he will have exactly the same rights that the company would have had if there were no mezzanine.

Mezzanine debt can be structured in multiple tiers (Sstuyvesant Town in NYC had ten tiers of mezzanine debt), and it could sit below multiple tiers of mortgages, but fundamentally it all works the same way. If you understand what a mezzanine is, you understand what a second mezzanine or a third mezzanine is. There is no need to contrast a second mezz and a third mezz. The difference is obvious.

In contrast, Mezzanine debt in corporates usually just means "in the middle." There is no technical definition. There are as many different ways to structure corporate mezzanine as there are corporations. Sometimes a "second lien" is called a "mezzanine" if there is also a third lien (or a "junior"). In that case it is equivalent to a second lien, it just has a different name. Sometimes a mezzanine is secured by certain assets but not others. Sometimes the "unsecured" debt is called "mezzanine" if there is a senior secured and a junior unsecured. It's just the thing in the middle, and it's mostly about marketing (ie the investment bankers give it the name that will sell the best). But if there is more than one mezzanine, they would almost always be structured identically (ie same collateral, same rights), except one has first dibs and the other has second dibs. It would be too confusing to have two different types of mezzanine (e.g. if one tranche of "junior secured" were called a "mezzanine" but also a different tranche of "senior unsecured" were also called mezzanine.) It's just too confusing. For that reason one company never has more than one type of mezzanine. It could have multiple tiers (first, second, third, etc) but if you understand how one tier works then you understand how the others work. It would be more useful to describe the various ways of structuring mezzanine debt than to try to rank which type is "better" than another type.

That's probably a lot more than you wanted. I'm not even sure why I spent the time to wrote all that. But the upshot is, I recommend you delete the foregoing request, for the reasons stated, and I hope this was helpful. Tpkaplan (talk) 00:03, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

• Money market deposit account is full of guesses and conflicting information with no sources on what should be a simple topic. Someone should go clear it and write a short definitional article with a handful of sources. --Tibbetts2c (talk) 23:58, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

You might like to join WP:Wikiproject Investment where that article is highlighted as a potential candidate for work. Zain Ebrahim (talk) 11:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

• Effective interest rate, annual percentage rate and annual percentage yield - relationship between the three need to be clarified Finnancier (talk) 11:50, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

• Please suggest improvements to systemic risk. Nshuks7 (talk) 09:27, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

• Bond option#Valuation & Bond option#Embedded options. Please check my wording: potentially unclear - put formulae into words. Thx. Fintor (talk) 07:51, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

• Sovys / Sovereign yield spread futures. I've created a redirect to CME but I think an article could make sense... however they're so shite that it's hardly important! Egg Centric 08:59, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

• Regulation S-K: I just copyedited this, and there are a number of areas needing attention - most especially making sure I didn't introduce any errors by misunderstanding the frequently-unclear material that was there earlier! Allens (talk | contribs) 19:50, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

• Parts of the table in List of circulating currencies are pure nonsense in their present form. Please see the Talk page there. --Thnidu (talk) 06:22, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

• S&P Leveraged Loan Index is badly outdated. it descibes some "current" index values as indicative of economic distress — and the references date back 5+ years. Could give an uninformed reader erroneous view of current economy. —2606:A000:678C:9300:39CC:5504:29F9:5DFD (talk) 23:08, 18 May 2018 (UTC)