Company: NMFCZ
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001496099-25-000018
Chunk: 254

Company: New Mountain Finance Corp
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 254
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 entered into an International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. 2002 Master Agreement, (together with the Schedule and Credit Support Annex thereto and any transactions thereunder, the "ISDA Master Agreement"), on March 18, 2024, with a derivative counterparty (the “ISDA Counterparty”). The ISDA Master Agreement is a bilateral agreement between the Company and the ISDA Counterparty that governs over-the-counter derivatives, into which the Company enters for hedging purposes. The ISDA Master Agreement provides for, among other things, collateral posting terms and netting provisions in the event of certain specified defaults and/or termination events, including bankruptcy or insolvency of the counterparty. The ISDA Master Agreement also includes termination rights that permit the termination of outstanding transactions by the ISDA Counterparty in the event the Company fails to maintain sufficient asset levels, and by the Company in the event the ISDA Counterparty is downgraded below a specified minimum rating level. The Company minimizes counterparty credit risk by only entering into agreements with counterparties that it believes to be of good standing and by monitoring the financial stability of those counterparties. The collateral terms of the ISDA Master Agreement provide for the bilateral posting of collateral in the form of cash or U.S. government securities for any outstanding exposure under the transactions. In the case of the Company, the agreement provides for the segregation of posted collateral at the Company’s custodian subject to a perfected security interest in favor of the ISDA Counterparty. Upon the close-out of the transactions outstanding under the ISDA Master Agreement following a default, the ISDA Master Agreement provides for a single net payment between the parties equal to the close-out replacement value of the terminated transactions, the right to offset receivables and payables with the same counterparty and/or the right to liquidate collateral. Interest rate swaps are agreements to exchange interest payments based upon notional amounts and subject the Company to market risk associated with changes in interest rates and changes in interest rate volatility, as well as the credit risk that the counterparty will fail to perform. The Company designates all interest rate swaps as hedging instruments in a qualifying fair value hedge accounting relationship. As a result, the change in fair value of the hedging instrument and hedged item are recorded in "Interest expense" and recognized as components of "Interest expense" in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations. The fair value of the interest rate swap is included as a component of "Derivative asset at fair value" or