Company: NMFCZ
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001496099-25-000018
Chunk: 122

Company: New Mountain Finance Corp
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 122
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 value of the Company’s investments may fluctuate from period to period and the fluctuations could be material.See Note 3. Investments, for further discussion relating to investments.Derivative instruments and hedging activities—The Company follows the guidance in Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging ("ASC 815"), when accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities. The Company may utilize derivatives to support its overarching risk management objectives. The primary market risk that the Company is exposed to is interest rate risk, which we seek to mitigate through derivative transactions. 

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The Company enters into derivative financial instruments to manage interest rate risk, facilitate asset/liability management strategies and manage other exposures. These instruments primarily include interest rate swaps. All derivative financial instruments are recognized as derivative assets at fair value or derivative liabilities at fair value, as applicable.The Company has 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