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Multi-currency facility

Why does a lender care which currency a facility is drawn in?

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BY MICHAEL SHANG · SIXTEEN YEARS IN COMMERCIAL BANKING · UPDATED

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A multi-currency facility lets a borrower draw in more than one currency under a single limit. The credit question is not the convenience but the match: an exporter paid in one currency and carrying costs in another has an exposure that a facility can either hedge or amplify, depending on how the sub-limits are drawn. A borrower who cannot produce a currency schedule is not creating a documentation delay — the reluctance is information about the exposure.

BASIS  Practitioner judgment from sixteen years in commercial banking, set out in How Bankers Think (Highbank Press, 2026). Every borrower on this site is a composite constructed for teaching, not a client. The market is mid-market commercial lending as practised in New Zealand and Australia; where a convention differs elsewhere, the page says so.

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