Dorney Park is a theme park in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Loan Sales and Participations. A loan participation is a sharing or selling of interests in a loan. Depository institutions use loan participations as an integral part of their lending operations. Banks may sell participations to enhance their liquidity, interest rate risk management, and capital and earnings. They may also sell participations to diversify their loan portfolio and serve the credit needs of borrowers.
Pooling investment dollars is a popular practice-one that's resulted in the advent of mutual funds, REITs and the like. Participation loans follow the same concept, only the investment at hand is a credit facility. In a generic sense, the term participation loan refers to three different types of partnerships that involve financing. A group of owners can get together as borrowers; a lender can partner with the borrower, taking an ownership stake in the project being financed; or a group of lenders can partner up, jointly fulfilling the debt needs of one borrower.