Chaordix' Shelley Kuipers to Join Judging Panel for PitchIt! Challenge at We ...
PR.com (press release)
Shelley is an accomplished and highly successful investor and entrepreneur. Her first startup experience was with Merak Projects, which was acquired by Schlumberger in 1999. In 2000, she co-founded Stormworks - a software development and online ...

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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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China Internet Flashblack: Working with a future tycoon
CNN (blog)
With school loans to pay off, I took up a post with a fledgling Chinese entrepreneur whom I met while covering a Beijing Internet conference as a freelancer. Charles would later become known as a China Internet pioneer and score a fortune big enough to ...

Budding business leaders get boost
Durham Herald Sun
Jud Bowman (from left), CEO of Appia (formerly PocketGear) and Brian Hamilton, founder of Sageworks, answer questions during a Startup Madness fireside chat on Thursday at the American Tobacco Campus. The event offered an opportunity for entrepreneurs ...

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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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Raising venture money: 10 tips for success
Fortune (blog)
One of my panelists was Janet Riccio, an EVP at Omnicom Group (OMC), who came on stage with 10 tips for raising start-up money. Riccio had gotten the list of tips from an entrepreneur she knows: Communispace CEO Diane Hessan, who agreed last month to ...

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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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Ben Franklin and the art of business development
Fortune
In the late 1770s, America was a start-up nation that had declared war against the Microsoft or Google of its time. While the American entrepreneurs were courageous, industrious and intelligent, they were facing a formidable ...

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Kansas City Star
A business financing option if the bank says 'no'
Snohomish County Business
Perhaps no activity in starting up a new business in Snohomish County or formulating plans for growth of an existing business will have as much impact on your prospect for success over the long run than ensuring adequate financing. ...
Smaller Banks May Come To The Rescue: Small Business Loans NeededDaily News Pulse
Chase boosts California small business lending in 2010Bizjournals.com
Small Business Loans And Lending From Banks And The SBA–Do Businesses Need ...Red, White, and Blue Press
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Multi Billion Dollar Small Business Lending Fund Sees Few Bank Participants
Small Business News from Gaebler.com
As part of last fall's Small Business Jobs Act, the Obama administration established a $30 billion lending fund for small businesses. While it was praised highly at the time, since then it has seen little activity, according to small business finance ...
Los Angeles County Small Business Owners Optimistic, Says Union Bank SurveyMy Latino Voice

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Delta Said to Set Pricing on $2.6 Billion of Refinancing Loans
BusinessWeek
Lenders must let JPMorgan Chase & Co., the bank leading the financing, know by April 12 whether they will participate in the deal, the person said. Bank of America Corp., Barclays Plc, Citigroup NA, Credit Suisse AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Goldman Sachs, ...

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Everything Gold (blog)
ILFC Refinances Debt, Makes Promotions
Los Angeles Business Journal
“Fred has significant experience in commercial aviation and demonstrated success and expertise in ILFC's aircraft financing,” Chief Executive Henri Courpron said in a statement. “His leadership and ability to successfully adapt our business through ...
ILFC Names Fred Cromer PresidentBenzinga

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CTV.ca
Ally Financial Aims to Raise $5 Billion in IPO
Wall Street Journal
A complication for potential investors: GM plans to expand GM Financial, its finance arm, potentially setting the stage for a showdown with Ally. If the auto maker heavily expands its auto-finance business, it could hurt the valuation of an Ally IPO. ...
Ally Financial Files Registration Statement With the Securities and Exchange ...PR Newswire (press release)
Ally Financial, Zipcar file for IPOsMarketWatch

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Raising Venture Money: 10 tips for success
Fortune (blog)
One of my panelists was Janet Riccio, an EVP at Omnicom Group (OMC), who came on stage with 10 tips for raising start-up money. Riccio had gotten the list of tips from an entrepreneur she knows: Communispace CEO Diane Hessan, who agreed last month to ...

Leading Supply Chain Finance Provider PrimeRevenue Announces Record 2010 Results
Business Wire (press release)
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PrimeRevenue, the leading open platform Supply Chain Finance (SCF) provider, announced operating results for the year ending December 31, 2010. “We look forward to strong growth again in 2011, and are already experiencing a ...

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CTV.ca
Ally Financial Registers IPO For Up To $100M In Common Shares
Wall Street Journal
A complication for potential investors: GM plans to expand GM Financial, its finance arm, potentially setting the stage for a showdown with Ally. If the auto maker heavily expands its auto-finance business, it could hurt the valuation of an Ally IPO. ...
Ally Financial Files Registration Statement With the Securities and Exchange ...PR Newswire (press release)

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Ally Financial Files Registration Statement With the Securities and Exchange ...
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 ...
Colony Financial, Inc. Announces Public Offering of Common StockBusiness Wire (press release)

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