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Financing and Other Debt
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Financing and Other Debt
9.Financing and Other Debt
The following table summarizes the Company’s total outstanding debt by type as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020.
(In thousands)September 30, 2021December 31, 2020
Borrowings on Revolving Credit Facility$213,400 $— 
Term loans:
Tranche A Term Loans953,972 873,777 
Tranche B Term Loans1,434,790 1,442,368 
Total term loans2,388,762 2,316,145 
Notes outstanding— 400,000 
Convertible Notes310,000 310,000 
Securitized debt88,327 85,945 
Participation debt1,500 — 
Borrowed federal funds40,000 20,000 
Total gross debt1
$3,041,989 $3,132,090 
1 See Note 12, Fair Value, for more information regarding the fair value of the Company’s debt.
The following table summarizes the Company’s total outstanding debt by balance sheet classification:
(In thousands)September 30, 2021December 31, 2020
Current portion of gross debt$193,169 $170,556 
Less: Unamortized debt issuance costs/debt discount(9,925)(17,826)
Short-term debt, net$183,244 $152,730 
Long-term portion of gross debt$2,848,820 $2,961,534 
Less: Unamortized debt issuance costs/debt discount(46,503)(87,421)
Long-term debt, net$2,802,317 $2,874,113 
Supplemental information:
Letters of credit1
$51,574 $51,628 
Remaining borrowing capacity on Revolving Credit Facility2
$665,026 $818,372 
1 Collateral for lease agreements, virtual card and fuel payment processing activity at the Company’s foreign subsidiaries.
2 Contingent on maintaining compliance with the financial covenants as defined in the Company’s Amended and Restated Credit Agreement.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
On April 1, 2021, the Company amended and restated the 2016 Credit Agreement (the “Amended and Restated Credit Agreement”). As part of the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, the lenders agreed to (i) increase commitments under the Company’s secured revolving credit facility from $870.0 million to $930.0 million (the “Revolving Credit Facility”), (ii) provide additional senior secured tranche A term loans (the “Tranche A Term Loans”) resulting in an aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Tranche A Term Loans equal to $978.4 million, (iii) re-establish the senior secured tranche B term loans’ aggregate principal amount at $1,442.0 million (the “Tranche B Term Loans”), (iv) eliminate the 0.75 percent eurocurrency rate floor with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, and (v) make certain other changes to the previously existing 2016 Credit Agreement, including without limitation, (a) extending the maturity dates for the Tranche A Term Loans and Revolving Credit Facility to April 1, 2026 and the maturity date for the Tranche B Term Loans to April 1, 2028, (b) providing additional flexibility with respect to certain negative covenants, prepayments and other provisions of the Company’s previously existing 2016 Credit Agreement, and (c) revising the Company’s maximum consolidated leverage ratio for all future quarters, including a reduction from 7.50 to 1:00 to 6.25 to 1:00 for quarters ending through September 30, 2021, with step-downs in periods thereafter. The Revolving Credit Facility and the Tranche A Term Loans bear interest at variable rates, at the Company’s option, plus an applicable margin determined based on the Company’s consolidated leverage ratio. The Tranche B Term Loans bear interest at variable rates, at the Company’s option, plus an applicable margin, which is fixed at 1.25 percent for base rate borrowings and 2.25 percent with respect to eurocurrency rate borrowings. Prior to maturity, the Tranche A Term Loans and Tranche B Term Loans require scheduled quarterly payments of $12.2 million and $3.6 million, respectively, due on the last day of each March, June, September and December.
As of September 30, 2021, the Company had an outstanding principal amount of $954.0 million on the Tranche A Term Loans, an outstanding principal amount of $1,434.8 million on the Tranche B Term Loans, borrowings on the Revolving Credit Facility of $213.4 million and letters of credit of $51.6 million drawn against the Revolving Credit Facility.
As of September 30, 2021, amounts outstanding under the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement bore a weighted average effective interest rate of 2.2 percent. As of December 31, 2020, amounts outstanding under the 2016 Credit Agreement bore a weighted average effective interest rate of 2.3 percent. The Company maintains interest rate swap contracts to manage the interest rate risk associated with its outstanding variable-interest rate borrowings. See Note 7, Derivative Instruments, for further discussion. In addition, the Company agreed to pay a quarterly commitment fee at a rate per annum ranging, as of September 30, 2021, from 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent of the daily unused portion of the Revolving Credit Facility (which was 0.40 percent at both September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020) determined based on the Company’s consolidated leverage ratio.
The Company accounted for the amendment and restatement of the 2016 Credit Agreement as both a debt modification and extinguishment, and consequently recorded a loss on extinguishment of debt of $3.4 million related to the write-off of unamortized debt issuance costs during the nine months ended September 30, 2021. During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company incurred $5.5 million of third-party debt restructuring costs associated with the amendment and restatement, which have been classified within general and administrative expenses in our condensed consolidated statements of operations. Debt discounts and financing fees totaling $16.1 million, incurred in conjunction with the amendment and restatement, were capitalized during the nine months ended September 30, 2021, and are being amortized into interest expense over the term of the respective debt facilities using the effective interest method.
Debt Covenants
The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement contains various affirmative, negative and financial maintenance covenants affecting the Company and its subsidiaries including, in certain limited circumstances, WEX Bank and the Company’s other regulated subsidiaries.
Notes Outstanding
On March 15, 2021, the Company redeemed $400.0 million of Notes outstanding, which were otherwise scheduled to mature on February 1, 2023. The redemption price of the Notes was $400.0 million plus accrued and unpaid interest through the redemption date. Prior to redemption, interest was payable semiannually in arrears on February 1 and August 1 of each year. Unamortized debt issuance costs previously incurred and capitalized in conjunction with the Notes of $1.4 million were accelerated as of the redemption date and amortized in full to interest expense during the nine months ended September 30, 2021.
Convertible Notes

Pursuant to a purchase agreement dated June 29, 2020, on July 1, 2020, the Company closed on a private placement with an affiliate of Warburg Pincus LLC (together with its affiliate, "Warburg Pincus"), pursuant to which the Company issued the Convertible Notes due on July 15, 2027 in an aggregate principal amount of $310.0 million and 577,254 shares of the Company’s common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $389.2 million, of which $90.0 million constituted the purchase price for the shares, reflecting a purchase price of $155.91 per share.
The issuance of the Convertible Notes provided the Company with net proceeds of approximately $299.2 million after original issue discount. The Convertible Notes have a seven-year term maturing July 15, 2027, unless earlier converted, repurchased or redeemed. Interest is calculated at a fixed rate of 6.5 percent per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year. At the Company’s option, interest is either payable in cash, through accretion to the principal amount of the Convertible Notes, or a combination of cash and accretion.

The Convertible Notes may be converted at the option of the holders at any time prior to maturity, or earlier redemption or repurchase of the Convertible Notes, based upon an initial conversion price of $200 per share of common stock. The Company may settle conversions of Convertible Notes, at its election, in cash, shares of the Company’s common stock, or a combination thereof. The initial conversion price is subject to adjustments customary for convertible debt securities and a weighted average adjustment in the event of issuances of equity and equity linked securities by the Company at prices below the then applicable conversion price for the Convertible Notes or the then market price of the Company’s common stock, subject to certain exceptions, including exceptions with respect to underwritten offerings, Rule 144A offerings, private placements at discounts not exceeding a specified amount, issuances as acquisition consideration and equity compensation related issuances.
The Company will have the right, at any time after July 1, 2023, to redeem the Convertible Notes in whole or in part if the closing price of WEX’s common stock is at least 200 percent of the conversion price of the Convertible Notes for 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) out of any 30 consecutive trading day period prior to the time the Company delivers a redemption notice, (including at least one of the five trading days immediately preceding the last day of such 30 trading day period), subject to the right of holders of the Convertible Notes to convert its Convertible Notes prior to the redemption date.
In the event of certain fundamental change transactions, including certain change of control transactions and delisting events involving the Company, holders of the Convertible Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase its Convertible Notes at 105 percent of the outstanding principal amount of the Convertible Notes, plus the present value of future
interest payments through the date of maturity. There were no shares issued upon conversion, exercise or satisfaction of required conditions under these Convertible Notes during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021.
Until January 1, 2021, the Convertible Notes were separated into liability and equity components. Effective January 1, 2021, the Company adopted ASU 2020-06 using the modified-retrospective approach under which separation of the conversion feature into an equity component is no longer required, and the Company now accounts for the Convertible Notes and its conversion feature as a single unit of account. The remaining debt discount and debt issuance costs associated with the Convertible Notes will be amortized to interest expense using the effective interest rate method over the seven-year contractual life of the Convertible Notes. As of September 30, 2021, the Convertible Notes have an effective interest rate of 7.5 percent.

Based on the closing price of the Company’s common stock as of September 30, 2021, the “if-converted” value of the Convertible Notes was less than the respective principal amount.
The Convertible Notes consist of the following:
(In thousands)September 30, 2021December 31, 2020
Principal$310,000 $310,000 
Less: Unamortized discounts(13,292)(66,755)
Less: Unamortized issuance cost(2,140)(2,358)
Net carrying amount of Convertible Notes1
$294,568 $240,887 
Equity component2
$— $54,689 
1 Recorded within long-term debt, net on our condensed consolidated balance sheet.
2 Represents the proceeds allocated to the conversion option, or debt discount, recorded within additional paid-in capital on the condensed consolidated balance sheet through December 31, 2020. Additional paid-in capital on the condensed consolidated balance sheet through December 31, 2020 was further reduced by $0.6 million of issuance costs and $13.6 million in taxes associated with the equity component. Effective January 1, 2021, the Convertible Notes and its conversion feature were accounted for as a single unit of account.
The following table sets forth total interest expense recognized for the Convertible Notes:
Three Months Ended September 30,Nine Months Ended September 30,
(In thousands)2021202020212020
Interest on 6.5 percent coupon
$5,038 $4,982 $15,113 $4,982 
Amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs512 1,674 1,566 1,674 
$5,550 $6,656 $16,679 $6,656 
Australian Securitization Facility
The Company has a securitized debt agreement with MUFG Bank, Ltd. through April 2022. Under the terms of the agreement, each month on a revolving basis, the Company sells certain of its Australian receivables to the Company’s Australian Securitization Subsidiary, which in turn uses the receivables as collateral to issue asset-backed commercial paper (“securitized debt”). The amount collected on the securitized receivables is restricted to pay the securitized debt and is not available for general corporate purposes.
The Company pays a variable interest rate on the outstanding balance of the securitized debt, based on the Australian Bank Bill Rate plus an applicable margin. The interest rate was 0.91 percent and 0.97 percent as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. The Company had $59.6 million and $62.6 million of securitized debt under this facility as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, recorded in short-term debt, net.
European Securitization Facility
Under the terms of the Company’s securitized debt agreement with MUFG Bank, Ltd. through April 2022, each month on a revolving basis, the Company sells certain of its receivables from selected European countries to its European Securitization Subsidiary, which in turn, uses the receivables as collateral to issue securitized debt. The amount collected on the securitized receivables is restricted to pay the securitized debt and is not available for general corporate purposes.
The Company pays a variable interest rate on the outstanding balance of the securitized debt, based on the Sterling Overnight Index Average, plus an applicable margin. The interest rate was 1.04 percent and 0.98 percent as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. The Company had $28.7 million and $23.4 million of securitized debt under this facility as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, recorded in short-term debt, net.

Participation Debt
From time to time, WEX Bank enters into participation agreements with third-party banks to fund customers’ balances that exceed WEX Bank’s lending limit to individual customers. Associated unsecured borrowings generally carry a variable interest rate set according to an applicable reference rate plus a margin, which ranged from 225 to 250 basis points as of September 30, 2021.
As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company had outstanding participation agreements for the borrowing of up to $61.5 million through December 31, 2021. There was $1.5 million borrowed against these participation agreements as of September 30, 2021 with an average interest rate of 2.36 percent. There were no amounts borrowed against participation agreements as of December 31, 2020.
Borrowed Federal Funds
WEX Bank borrows from uncommitted federal funds lines to supplement the financing of the Company’s accounts receivable. Our federal funds lines of credit were $561.0 million and $376.0 million as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. There were $40.0 million and $20.0 million of outstanding borrowings as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.
Other
As of September 30, 2021, WEX Bank pledged $378.7 million of fleet receivables held by WEX Bank to the Federal Reserve Bank as collateral for potential borrowings, through the Federal Reserve Bank Discount Window. Amounts that can be borrowed are based on the amount of collateral pledged and were $277.2 million as of September 30, 2021. WEX Bank had no borrowings outstanding on this line of credit through the Federal Reserve Bank Discount Window as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020.