SBA extends refinancing option
Westfair Online
The Small Business Administration is offering a temporary refinancing program for commercial real estate mortgages that mature beginning in 2013, and for which owners have had difficulty getting financing through regular channels like banks. ...
SBA program pops balloon loansSacramento Business Journal

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Treasury's Pension Raids in Past Debt Ceiling Fights
Fox Business
“Specifically, Treasury used a program that was originally established as an alternative method for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to increase its assistance to the financial sector during the financial downturn, the Supplementary Financing Program (SFP), ...

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Christian Science Monitor
Treasury tries new approach to small business lending
Sun-Sentinel
A new US Treasury fund is being offered to push community banks towards more small business lending. The $30 billion fund, part of the Small Business Jobs Act, is open to banks with assets of less than $10 billion. The design provides a key incentive ...
Commercial lending topic of meetingMidland Daily News
10 questions to find the right bank for your businessReuters Blogs (blog)
UMB Bank credit manager: Shutdown shouldn't stop small business loan applicationsBizjournals.com
Westfair Online -American Banking News (press release) -Sacramento Business Journal
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Ally Financial to Commence Registered Exchange Offer
PR Newswire (press release)
The company offers a full suite of automotive financing products and services in key markets around the world. Ally's other business units include mortgage operations and commercial finance, and the company's subsidiary, Ally Bank, offers retail ...

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Report Card Exposes Largest Financers of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
SustainableBusiness.com
"Mountaintop removal coal mining is bad for health and bad for business. From a regulatory and financial perspective this disastrous mining practice is too big of a risk for banks, and certainly too big of a risk to America's families," said Amanda ...

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Small Business Loans From Peer-To-Peer Networks–Alternative Borrowing Options ...
Red, White, and Blue Press
The small business loans are still being sought out by many companies looking for sources of financing to either establish their operations or grow their current company, but there are still some issues that these borrowers face when it ...

Alternative financing can offset cashflow problems
TechJournal South
Accounts Receivable (A/R) Financing: A/R financing is more similar to a bank loan than factoring is. Here, a business submits all of its invoices to the commercial finance company, which establishes a borrowing base against which the company can borrow ...

Blockbuster, Lehman, Vitro, Accredited Home: Bankruptcy
BusinessWeek
The senior secured lenders are Ableco Finance LLC, Wells Fargo Capital Finance Inc., and Ally Commercial Finance LLC. The case is CB Holding Corp., 10-13683, US Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware (Wilmington). The trustee for Bernard L. Madoff ...

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FRANCE 24
Dubai eyes $800M financing through toll deal
BusinessWeek
The Commercial Bank of Dubai, Citibank, Dubai Islamic Bank and Emirates NBD are leading the financing effort. Dubai has been overhauling its finances and restructuring billions of dollars in debt after a credit crisis that began over a year and a half ...
Dubai to sell future Salik receipts to finance projectsThe National
Dubai unveils $800m plan to monetize SalikArabianBusiness.com

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China Is Headed For A Financial Crisis Unless It Makes Four Critical Reforms
The Business Insider
Typically the key objectives in this kind of banking system are rapid elite-directed growth and overall financial stability. Since banks are in the business of taking risk, and since rapid credit expansion is inherently risky, the only way to guarantee ...

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Missouri governor talks small business in Springfield
News-Leader.com
The rest -- $16.9 million -- will go to the Missouri IDEA Seed and Venture Capital Funds for business involved in science and technology. Eligible businesses must seek funds for one of four stages of growth: pre-seed capital stage financing, ...

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Gap Inc obtains new bank financing
Fibre2fashion.com
As part of the same financing agreement, the Company also entered into a $400 million five-year term loan. Since 2002, Gap Inc. has demonstrated its ability to generate consistent and strong operating cash flow, through various business cycles and even ...

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Roanoke Times
Roanoke County eyeglass innovator PixelOptics gets $45 million investment
Roanoke Times
PixelOptics, a homegrown technology company that made a national splash this winter with its new emPower automatically adjusting electronic eyeglasses, announced a $45 million infusion of financing Thursday. The investment will mean faster growth for ...
Safeguard Scientifics Leads $45 Million Financing for PixelOpticsBusiness Wire (press release)
Safeguard Scientifics leads $45 million financing for PixelOpticsOptoIQ
PixelOptics Closes $45 Million FinancingPR Newswire (press release)

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Riverside County wants foreign trade finance officer
Press-Enterprise
Riverside County officials want their own foreign trade financing officer and have sought federal support, as well as offered free office space, to get one. There are 18 business development officers representing the Export-Import ...

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H&R Block sees 4Q charge; March filing growth ebbs
CBS News
Block lost its financing for the loans in late December, too close to tax season to find another bank to back them. Analysts, on average, are expecting Block to report profit of $2.14 per share, on revenue of $2.3 billion, according to data provided by ...

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BusinessWeek
Japan's Debate: How to Fund the Cleanup
BusinessWeek
Takahashi boosted spending by 34 percent in the 1932 fiscal year, financing it by doubling bond issuance, according to a report by the Japan Center for Economic Research. While the effort helped end deflation, much of the outlays were used for the ...

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H&R Block Sees 4Q Charge; March Filing Growth Ebbs
ABC News
Block lost its financing for the loans in late December, too close to tax season to find another bank to back them. Analysts, on average, are expecting Block to report profit of $2.14 per share, on revenue of $2.3 billion, according to data provided by ...

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Bridge Bank Extends $7 Million in Financing to Fluidigm Corporation
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
"Bridge Bank's financing provides Fluidigm with greater flexibility to manage its working capital," said Vikram Jog, Chief Financial Officer of Fluidigm. "Bridge Bank invested time and effort to understand our business and industry and then structured ...

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Small Businesses See Benefits Of Exporting
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SBA, Inc. Magazine and AT&T Join Forces to Promote Exporting by U.S. Small ...Business Wire (press release)

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Bridge Bank Extends $7 Million in Financing to Fluidigm Corporation
Marketwire (press release)
"Bridge Bank's financing provides Fluidigm with greater flexibility to manage its working capital," said Vikram Jog, Chief Financial Officer of Fluidigm. "Bridge Bank invested time and effort to understand our business and industry and then structured ...

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