Persistent 'macro' concerns about micro-finance
BusinessDay
Enter the financial whiz-kids, purportedly here to empower the poor and down-trodden, while changing the face of the sector for good. In concert with the well intended efforts of the regulatory watchdogs ie CBN and NDIC, the death knell had effectively ...

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GE Capital Acquires Business And Assets Of Face Finance
Voxy
The receivers of the SCF Group have announced that GE Capital's New Zealand Equipment Finance business has acquired over NZ$100 million of commercial loan book assets from Face Finance Limited, a subsidiary of South Canterbury Finance Limited. ...
SCF's Face Finance soldStuff.co.nz
South Canterbury receivers sell Face FinanceNew Zealand Herald
South Canterbury receivers sell FaceNational Business Review

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Entrepreneurs unveil tech ideas at Santa Cruz TechRaising
Santa Cruz Sentinel
SANTA CRUZ - Budding entrepreneurs on Sunday afternoon unveiled their plans for new startup businesses using cutting-edge technology to fill customers' needs, create jobs and generate profits. ...

SCF's Face Finance sold
Stuff.co.nz
GE Capital's New Zealand Equipment Finance business announced today it has acquired over $100 million of commercial loan assets from South Canterbury Finance subsidiary Face Finance. GE Capital said the deal consolidates its position as a specialist ...
GE Capital Acquires Business And Assets Of Face FinanceVoxy
South Canterbury receivers sell Face FinanceNew Zealand Herald
South Canterbury receivers sell FaceNational Business Review

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UTPA business incubator recognized as nation's best
Monitor
“(The center's staff) gave us a lot of business guidance and checked the financial aspects of the loan,” he said. “Every step of the way, if we needed any help or anything else to get this going, they were ready.” Jared Janes covers Hidalgo County ...

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U. of U.-owned companies produce winners and losers
Salt Lake Tribune
Brian Cummings, head of the U.'s Technology Commercialization Office, says Trapeze is a successful example of the U.'s system of establishing startup companies. "We do this when there is no other path. We do this to get value to the [faculty inventor] ...

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Irish Times
In 2010, Crospon developed a new start-up known as Janisys. The Janisys active microneedle-based transdermal drug delivery system was originally devised at Hewlett Packard before being out-licensed to Crospon in 2007. This patch-like system is ...

Financial News
New Holmes for start-up ventures
Financial News
“Being successful in our business comes through being friends with entrepreneurs. There is also a need to get references from them in the future to show you are good to work with.” Looking to the future, Holmes said various widely used technologies are ...

Burdened by PBS Dues, Stations Consider Withdrawing
New York Times
In the New York City area, WNET-TV is among those bidding to take over NJN in New Jersey, which is losing its state financing in coming weeks. Ultimately, she said, if consolidation leads to “fewer stations but stronger stations, that ends up being ...

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Orix Corp in talks to buy TPG Capital stake in Shriram Transport
Economic Times
If the deal goes through, it would want to extend participation in the securities and infrastructure finance business of the Shriram group," said a person who has knowledge of the talks but spoke on the condition of anonymity considering the ...

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The National
Ambition in UAE gets a kick-start
The National
Its name means ambition in Arabic, symbolising the drive that exists in every entrepreneur. And the Al Tomooh Scheme, which provides Emiratis with start-up funding for small and medium-sized businesses, has an aim to match its title. ...

Islamic finance evolves as tool for international trade
gulfnews.com
Historically, a small range of Islamic financing, investment, cash management and treasury solutions limited the ability of a corporate treasury to mitigate foreign exchange, rate, funding, payment, commodity price and business protection risk in a ...

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New York Times
Hollywood Presses Its Global Agenda
New York Times
... concerns in Singapore, says the city-state is hoping to play to its strengths as an English-speaking country with strong links to China and India and strong intellectual property protection, as well as importance as a business and finance hub. ...

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Lee Enterprises Forms Strategic Alliance with Top Alternative Fuels Accounting ...
PR-USA.net (press release)
Her accounting practice primarily focuses on consulting and advisory services including financial forecasting, business development, and preparation of business plans. She has a wide range of experience in the areas of ethanol, biodiesel and renewable ...

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Sun Microsystems co-founder McNealy says US needs more tech...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
McNealy advised startup entrepreneurs to develop their business globally. "Go global," he said. "You've got to be an international citizen." McNealy said social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter represent the hot new technological ...

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Our greatest needs: More graduates, startup funding
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
More are needed. Colleges are getting better at training entrepreneurs, but there is a dearth of venture capital to help startups. That, and the graduation dilemma, are the biggest obstacles to our region's future prosperity.

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The two sides of TIF proposals
The Daily Advertiser
Tax Increment Financing seems a simple and potentially positive idea for bringing development to a community. The theory is that a local government can nurture business development in an area that is blighted or at some form of disadvantage by making ...

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Baltimore Sun
The Interview: Paula Jagemann, founder of Someone With
Baltimore Sun
Paula Jagemann had thought of herself as a retired entrepreneur. Then an idea for a startup grabbed her and wouldn't let go. While on the board of Frederick Memorial Hospital, she learned that breast cancer ...

Business in brief - May 22, 2011
TheDay.com
Connecticut Magazine partnered with Crescendo Business Services to survey recent homebuyers and industry experts to find the Connecticut mortgage professionals who scored the highest in overall satisfaction. • SI Financial Advisors, the trust and ...

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DON PESCI: Financing the UConn Health Center boondoggle
Danbury News Times
As a general rule, a contractual bid is necessary when the state does business with a private entity, but since the health center and the state are both government bodies, the $864 million business deal was concluded through what is called ...

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