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Kreditunterlage

English translation: credit documents/documentation

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German term or phrase:Kreditunterlage
English translation:credit documents/documentation
Entered by: Claire Langhard

05:21 Aug 2, 2005
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Economics
German term or phrase: Kreditunterlage
Statement of assets of a company's former owner in 1940.

"Saemtliche Lebensversicherungen sind als Kreditunterlage bei der xxx Bank, Prag, hintegelegt..."

Can anyone improve on "credit document"?
Jon Fedler
Local time: 03:11
credit documents
Explanation:
this term seems appropriate
Selected response from:

Claire Langhard
Switzerland
Local time: 02:11
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1 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5credit documents
Claire Langhard
4 +1are held as security for loans at ....
Christine Andrews (X)
4credit records
Monika Leit
5 -1credit instrument
KARIN ISBELL
3documents hypothecated for availing certain credit facility
Raghunathan Rajagopalan


  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
documents hypothecated for availing certain credit facility


Explanation:
that is what strikes me

Raghunathan Rajagopalan
Local time: 05:41
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 10
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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
credit documents


Explanation:
this term seems appropriate

Claire Langhard
Switzerland
Local time: 02:11
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 5

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ralf Lemster: Alternatively: "credit documentation" (this is the terminology used in BaFin's 'Minimum Requirements')
14 mins
agree  RobinB: with Ralf
45 mins
agree  Brie Vernier: Yep
3 hrs
agree  Jan Vano
4 hrs
agree  silfilla: with Ralf: credit documentation
9 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
credit records


Explanation:
oder alternativ: credit documentation

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Note added at 1 hr 41 mins (2005-08-02 07:03:23 GMT)
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Siehe auch:

www.bankerandtradesman.com/pub/5_177/credit_records/

Monika Leit
Local time: 02:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 27
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
are held as security for loans at ....


Explanation:
life insurance is often requested by a bank as security for a loan to ensure it will be repaid

Christine Andrews (X)
Local time: 01:11
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  kostan
8 mins
disagree  silfilla: sorry, but that's not what the German (...unterlage) says; Unterlage = document
8 hrs
agree  Deborah Shannon: I'm not so sure that Unterlage primarily meant document in that era, even if it does now (just looked it up in my pre-war Cassells, which gives many translations - support, substratum,stand, bearer, etc. etc. - but does not list 'document' at all
3 days 11 hrs
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
credit instrument


Explanation:
Hamblock Wessels

KARIN ISBELL
United States
Local time: 17:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 11

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  silfilla: with Hamblock-Wessels; it's just credit documentation; *instrument* would be *Urkunde* or the like in German :-)
1 hr
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