prepayment

Example Sentences

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Moerdler attributes that to the company’s ability to leverage customer prepayments.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

Most of the equipment needed for the contracts is already funded upfront via customer prepayments, Oracle said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

These prepayments “change the risk profile,” according to BofA analyst Dimple Gosai.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

Zhang wrote in a recent note that heavy prepayments could persist for higher-rate mortgages, knocking up to 5% off Chinese banks' earnings this year in a worst-case scenario.

From Reuters • Feb. 19, 2023

The buyer of the first tranche was like the owner of the ground floor in a flood: He got hit with the first wave of mortgage prepayments.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis