FDM.1:5 - Archetypal Grounding
A lender considers advancing 100 to a borrower. In this constructed arrangement, valid formation, currency and the applicable terms are supplied: successful funding creates the stated funded position, with 105 contractually due on day 30. The model distinguishes the lender and borrower, their respective right and duty, and the proceeds made available on funding.
An earlier score of 0.72 is a produced assertion under its scoring method. Its scale and meaning must be known before it is interpreted even as a probability. The score alone establishes neither a lending decision nor the borrower’s repayment obligation.
Suppose the signed arrangement also obliges the lender, before funding, to advance the amount once a specified condition is met. That supplied term gives the practitioner a separate pre-funding duty to examine. Waiting for disbursement before recognizing every obligation would lose it. If the actual formation or term is disputed, the model returns that exact uncertainty.
Now assume that the advance of 100 has occurred and the resulting obligation to pay 105 is established. After an adequately established payment of 60, the original agreement still describes the contractual payment of 105. FDM.4 can establish the remaining 45 under the example’s application rule and absence of further fees or interest. A servicing record that still shows an unpaid 105 is now a discrepancy to investigate, not proof that the payment had no effect.