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Monthly Archives: August 2011
When small businesses become big business
Top lenders are competing for a new growth engine. Li Xiang reports from Hebei province. With large State-owned enterprises becoming more reliant on direct financing in the capital market, Chinese banks are increasingly turning their attention to the country’s cash-strapped … Continue reading
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Danamon Seeks to Expand Loans to SMEs With Rights Offering
Bank Danamon, the nation’s sixth-largest lender, aims to raise almost Rp 5 trillion ($58 million) from a secondary share sale to stockholders next month to fund loans to small enterprises and the automotive sector. Danamon plans to sell 1.16 billion … Continue reading
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First, Make Money. Also, Do Good.
CORPORATE social responsibility efforts have always struck me as the modern equivalent of John D. Rockefeller handing out dimes to the common folk. They may be well-intentioned, but they often seem like small gestures at the margins of what companies … Continue reading
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Additional NT$8 billion to help small, medium businesses
2011/08/12 21:31:32 Taipei, Aug. 12 (CNA) A total of NT$8 billion (US$275.96 million) has been funneled into a fund to help small-and medium-sized enterprises, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Friday. The MOEA said to help such enterprises, the … Continue reading
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In Emerging Markets vs Developed Markets, EMs Win
Where to invest to recover from the major losses in our retirement plans since 2008? The emerging markets, if you can sleep at night, that is. The emerging markets aren’t as crazy risky as they used to be, but they … Continue reading
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Banking association, Khula in deal to help small businesses
SETUMO STONE Published: 2011/08/03 08:02:50 AM SMALL-scale enterprises could now enjoy better access to financial services and low financing costs following the signing of a co-operation agreement between state-owned developmental funding agency Khula Enterprise Finance and the Banking Association of … Continue reading
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Impact Investing Market Predicted to Grow to $500 Billion by 2014
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The fourth annual Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP11) will be held September 6-9 at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. Hundreds of global innovators including investors, foundations, institutions and social entrepreneurs representing 75 countries … Continue reading
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