SC panel: Financial benefits key to green economy
Anderson Independent Mail
Lindsey Graham, Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin and British energy minister Gregory Barker took part in the discussion at the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business. Barker, a leader in UK green initiatives that include ...

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Reuters Blogs (blog)
Greifeld Betting on Oldest Securities Business With NYSE Bid
BusinessWeek
“The value's all driven by derivatives,” said Robert Webb, a finance professor at the University of Virginia and former trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. “Their strategy is to remain a major player in this business at a time you're seeing ...
Creates a leading global exchange in equities, options, listings and exchange ...RedOrbit
Deals of the Day: It's Here — Nasdaq, ICE Bid for NYSEWall Street Journal (blog)
What Comes Next in the Battle for NYSENew York Times
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Papaconstantinou Says Still Chance for Bond Sales in 2011
BusinessWeek
Greece's financing needs for 2011 total 58 billion euros and are fully covered by the 110 billion-euro bailout package from the EU and International Monetary Fund and sales of Treasury bills. If the country is unable to tap debt markets for 27 billion ...

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WestPark Capital New Hire, Scott Schalk, Managing Director Capital Markets
Business Wire (press release)
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WestPark Capital, the Los Angeles-based international investment banking company, has hired Scott E. Schalk, an investment banker with more than 20 years of experience in the institutional financing arena. ...

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Mainichi Daily News
BOJ mulls emergency loans for disaster-hit firms
The Japan Times
"Companies are concerned about the risk of running out of cash on hand," said Masanobu Abe, deputy head of Sendai Chamber of Commerce's small business finance division, urging officials to ensure loans are made to smaller firms. ...
BOJ Tankan: Surprise Rise; Most Replies Pre-Quake -2-IMarketnews.com
Economic calculus of Japan's tragedyEconomic Times
Tokyo must seize moment or face stagflationGulfNews

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Sixth Avenue Electronics reaches settlement with GE in $9.6M lawsuit
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
By Leslie Kwoh/The Star-Ledger Sixth Avenue Electronics has reached an undisclosed agreement with GE's commercial financing arm to settle a lawsuit. Sixth Avenue Electronics, the Springfield-based retailer, has reached a settlement agreement with ...

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HSBC appoints head of leveraged and acquisition finance and loan origination
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
... as wider select general purpose financings (corporate and institutional syndicated loans and bridge financing), matching optimal financing solutions with new business opportunities that meet the strategic objectives of HSBC's Australian clients. ...
HSBC Names New Australia M&A Finance Head, Eyes Debt DealsWall Street Journal

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Business 2011 - Optimism, But Heed the Lessons
The Business Insider
Others focused on reducing overhead and expenses, but they needed a balanced strategy, along with new lines of credit and financing. More focus on strategic planning. Small business owners now recognize the importance of planning amid the new economic ...

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Lehman, Innkeepers, Vitro, GM, Cabrini Medical: Bankruptcy
BusinessWeek
Hilco also gave up a right of first refusal to conduct going- out-of-business sales at any stores that close. The creditors' committee said it obtained a more favorable financing proposal from an affiliate of liquidator Gordon Brothers Group LLC. ...

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Globe and Mail
American Apparel Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Financial Results ...
Business Wire (press release)
Last October, I was hired as Acting President to build the operating management team and bring additional operating disciplines to the business. In February 2011, John Luttrell joined the Company as Chief Financial Officer. Marty Staff joined American ...
American Apparel says it's facing Chapter 11 — or 7Chicago Breaking Business - Tribune
American Apparel Takes 4Q Hit, Warns of BankruptcyFox Business

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Vatican anti-money laundering law goes into effect; people bringing $14K ...
CanadianBusiness.com
The most significant change in the Vatican's way of doing business is the creation of the financial watchdog agency, the Financial Information Authority, or AIF, which is tasked with ensuring all Vatican financial transactions comply with the new ...

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Asia Entertainment & Resources Ltd. Announces Fourth Quarter and 2010 ...
Business Wire (press release)
AERL's related parties have increased financing from $58.0 million as of September 30, 2010 to $61.1 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2010, an increase of $3.1 million, which was due to high business volume and Rolling Chip Turnover and which ...

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The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
PPL Completes Acquisition of U.K. Electric Distribution Business
PR Newswire (press release)
To complete closing, PPL used acquisition financing under a syndicated bridge facility arranged by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. The permanent financing plan includes a combination of common stock, equity units and debt. ...
PPL Closes Purchase Of U.K. Electric Distribution Business - Quick FactsRTT News
PPL Boosts 2011 Guidance On Completion Of UK Power DealNASDAQ

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Bernanke Cash Drives Junk Frenzy as JPMorgan Faces Competition
BusinessWeek
LaBranche & Co. in New York shut its credit-brokerage business in July. Chapdelaine Credit Partners closed after an agreement to receive capital from Primus Financial Holdings Ltd. fell through, people familiar with the matter said in January. ...

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International Business Times
Chinese Banks' Illusory Earnings
The Business Insider
... business loans collateralized by land at inflated valuations — that give cause for concern. But it is loans made to Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFVs), special companies set up to fund ambitious and often redundant infrastructure projects ...
ICBC bank's profits increase 28%BBC News

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Bank of Japan Is Said to Mull Loan Program After Earthquake
BusinessWeek
“Companies are concerned about the risk of running out of cash on hand,” said Masanobu Abe, deputy head of Sendai Chamber of Commerce's small business finance division, urging officials to ensure loans are made to smaller firms. ...

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HSBC names Todd Langsford to lead leveraged finance
The Australian
In an interview with Dow Jones Newswires late last year, HSBC's chief in Australia, Paulo Maia, said the company planned to beef up its corporate finance business in the country. The greater emphasis in Australia comes as HSBC and other international ...

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USA Today
A Flaw in New Rules for Mortgages
New York Times
What business, people would have asked, did banks think they were in? Over the decades, banks got out of the habit of actually owning loans. Instead, the loans were securitized, with investors putting up the money. Some loans went to Fannie Mae and ...
DeMarco tempers Republican bills to end Fannie, FreddieHousing Wire

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Dexia, Depfa woes led them to seek Fed loans
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European banks Dexia and Depfa made some of the worst possible business decisions, including forays into bond insurance, and were forced to repeatedly ask the Federal Reserve for emergency loans at the height of the financial ...

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Dexia, Depfa woes led them to seek Fed loans
Reuters
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - European banks Dexia and Depfa made some of the worst possible business decisions, including forays into bond insurance, and were forced to repeatedly ask the Federal Reserve for emergency loans at the height of the ...

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