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The lending bank may impose restrictions on the company’s right to dispose of assets, even if these are not explicitly pledged as collateral. The objective of this covenant is to prevent the company from disposing of its highest quality assets at a discount to their underlying value. Interest cover. The bank may require the company to maintain a minimum specified level of operating cashflow to interest payments.
In the event of any of these covenants being broken the bank has the right to force the company to take corrective action or risk the bank calling in the loan. If the company cannot repay the loan promptly the bank may take legal action against the borrower and act to foreclose on the pledged collateral.
Most legal agreements between banks and counterparties also include a “force majeure” clause. This is a clause that the bank can invoke in the event of a change in the regulatory environment or a specified external event beyond their control. Legal and regulatory changes, the imposition of capital controls or the outbreak of war are examples of the sort of events that would allow a bank to invoke this clause. The clause absolves the bank of responsibility for any losses or other adverse effects experienced by the customer.

Credit derivatives are a relatively recent development and are only available in the more developed financial markets and then only for specific companies. They provide insurance policies that banks can buy to shield themselves from some losses arising from loan default. They are contracts between two parties where the seller of the credit derivative agrees to pay the buyer of the contract a pre-agreed amount when a specific condition or set of conditions is met. The sellers of these policies are usually insurance companies or SPVs (special purpose vehicles) set up by insurance companies.

Option statistics are published daily in the pages of the finacial press.  On June 30, for example, the August 380 calls with less than 2 weeks until expiry closed at $3.90; the September 380s with 6 weeks until expiry closed at $10.20, while the October 380s with 11 weeks to expiry closed at $12.80.
Note particularly the row entry starting with the strike price of 380. Since the August future has closed at 379.1, the August 380 option is trading very close to the money. Put and call options trading close to the money will command very similar prices. Indeed, when a future trades exactly at a strike price, the puts and calls at that strike must trade at exactly equal prices. Precisely why this equality has to prevail will be illustrated in the next series of posts.
Option values also increase with increasing market volatility. As of June 30, 1993, the gold market was the most volatile it had been in a year, the futures having risen $60.00 in less than 3 months. At that time, the 5-week at-the-money option was trading at $10.00. In early 1993, with gold in the doldrums, a similar 5-week option was trading at less than half this amount.
Option values are ultimately determined by the free interplay of supply and demand in the marketplace. A number of advisory services claim to be able to identify overvalued and undervalued option prices. If an option were obviously undervalued, it would obviously be worth buying, and buyers would quickly force the price up into some kind of equilibrium with other options having similar risk-reward characteristics. Similarly, if an option were obviously overvalued, it would clearly attract a lot of option writers on purely technical grounds. In practice, things are never that clear.