Meaning The waterfall finance structure is a concept in repayment where the higher tiered creditors receive the interest and all principal payments first. After their repayments are completed can the smaller or lower tiered creditors start receiving their interest and principal payments. This structure most likely exists keeping in mind that the higher tier of creditors need to be given a priority while repayment as the loans that they would give have a higher chance of being more expensive than that of the lower tier creditors. In this system the loans can either be paid in full one by one, first the higher tier creditors followed by the lower tier creditors or it can be done simultaneously in a systematic manner. The name waterfall finance suggests a metaphorical representation of how a waterfall actually is. If you put buckets in a vertical line down a waterfall then you can notice that the bucket at the top gets filled first followed by the bucket below it and so on. Also t...