deferrals

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Within the BDCs that Fitch Ratings tracks, such deferrals accounted on average for 8% of their interest and dividend income in 2025, compared with 4% in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

If that is the case, he argued, stronger defaults — higher starting deferrals, automatic escalation or more aggressive communication — might achieve similar results without layering on an additional 40 basis points annually.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026

The change goes further than an original proposal last year, to cut bonus deferrals to five years for senior bankers.

From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025

After the photo went viral, many male directors contacted her almost immediately to say they had added pregnancy deferrals to their programmes and expressed embarrassment that it was something they had not thought of before.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

So I asked: “Is it the case, then, that deferrals don’t exist? There’s nothing you can do?”

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro