Sentences with phrase «bank loans each year»

Millions of business owners apply for bank loans each year.

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He quickly moved up the ranks in finance while delving into the investing world, starting with growing a $ 500,000 loan from the Continental Bank of Canada to $ 3.5 million in four years.

The 81 - year - old government - run financial institution, known as the Ex-Im Bank, provides much - needed to support to exporters through guaranteed loans and credit insurance, and by its own reckoning, it has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the last 20 years.

The bank's overall loan book was up by 8 % from a year earlier.

We know that more than 90 percent of small business owners still believe that banks are a first stop for business financing, despite more than a 30 - year history of banks decreasing the amount of their loans going to small businesses.

Small business loans at Wells Fargo rose 18 percent last year, says Lisa Stevens, head of small business banking for the San Francisco - based bank.

Karen G. Mills, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, talks about the agency's 2011 record year in small - business loan guarantees, helping to fill gaps when banks were reluctant to lend.

Naturally, his forecasts were derailed by a combination of a deluge in mortgage costs from the disastrous acquisition of Countrywide Financial, and years of extremely low rates that shrank the margins the bank earns on its giant loan portfolios.

Once stringent requirements have eased with banks offering 10 - year loans, double the five - year terms they pushed in recent years.

Banks had $ 287.64 billion in outstanding loans to small businesses as of Dec. 31, up 1.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp..

It's a far cry from the days — say 15 years ago — when less than a dozen banks held a corporate loan on their balance sheet, and companies could renegotiate the terms of their loan with a single creditor, or a small committee.

The banks promptly obliged, shovelling more than US$ 1.5 trillion of loans out the door last year, an amount equal to 30 % of the country's economy.

Business duration: Most online small - business loans require at least one year of continuous operation; bank loans typically require at least two years.

If you just look at loan growth, which is one of the major indicators of a bank's health, Canadian Western Bank has seen its loans grow by about 7 % year - to - date, compared to between 1.1 % and 6.2 % for the biggest six babank's health, Canadian Western Bank has seen its loans grow by about 7 % year - to - date, compared to between 1.1 % and 6.2 % for the biggest six baBank has seen its loans grow by about 7 % year - to - date, compared to between 1.1 % and 6.2 % for the biggest six banks.

What's more, to qualify for most bank loans, your company will need to have been in business for at least one to two years and meet annual revenue requirements — to name just some of the criteria required.

Near the end of last year, Fulcrum BioEnergy closed on a $ 105 million loan guarantee through Bank of America backed by the U.S. Agriculture Department.

Though many community banks in this program have, controversially, used this money to pay off TARP rather than lend to small business, Hall says the money will help Team Capital make $ 200 million in loans to local small businesses, and it has enabled it to loan out $ 40 million in the past year.

While the country's biggest banks have already repaid TARP funds with interest, about 300 community banks have yet to repay their Treasury loans four years after the bailout began.

The 1,603 - page bill, negotiated by Republican and Democratic appropriators and leaders, drew Democrats» ire when they discovered it would roll back the Dodd - Frank law due to go into effect next year by killing planned restrictions on derivatives trading by large banks, allowing them to continue trading swaps and futures in units that benefit from federal deposit insurance and Federal Reserve loans.

While it may be true that «minority firm owners are less likely to have bank loans of any kind, they have easy access to transaction loans from nonbanks,» Veronique de Rugy of the American Enterprise Institute wrote in a paper last year.

«They struggled for 30 years to get a business off the ground and could never access a bank loan without refinancing their mortgage,» Ringelmann says.

Now, CEO Jeff Jacober — who founded the company in 1996 with bank loans and his own savings and nurtured it into a business that does $ 15 million a year in revenue — needed cash to build up enough inventory to service the big pharmacy chains.

Many banks will take your business credit score into account, but if your small business still is in its early years, your chances of securing a loan from a traditional lending institution are notoriously slim.

Over the past three years, half of small business owners reported applying for a loan from banks or another financial institution, with 20 percent applying more than once for financing.

While this doesn't mean all companies are back to pre-recession performance levels, entrepreneurs are likely to see new options for their business next year, thanks to an expected increase in bank loans and a larger pool of potential buyers.

Despite more than paying for itself — by its own reckoning, Ex-Im Bank has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the last two decades through interest on guaranteed loans and credit insurance — the 80 - year - old government - run financial institution is a sunset agency.

But there's that half - empty perspective; in one survey released last week by Bank of America, just 9 percent of the 1,000 owners questioned planned to apply for loans in the coming year.

Also last year, the Congressional Budget Office issued a report suggesting the bank may cost taxpayers money after all, using the fair - value accounting method, which accounts for market risks of the loans the agency makes.

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Commercial and industrial lending is increasing for larger companies, but according to the Thompson Reuters / Pay Net Small - Business Lending Index, the number of traditional bank loans to small businesses has fluctuated wildly over the past year.

As it stands, Wanda will secure a three - year bank loan of 29.6 billion yuan ($ 4.36 billion) and lend that money to Sunac.

But today, data shows that larger banks are now granting one in five small business loan applications, the most in the last 5 years.

That same year, Kelly got the company's first significant cash infusion, a $ 30,000 bank loan, with which he bought inventory.

And keep in mind that these potential losses come at a time when banks have put aside loan loss reserves to cover just 1.4 % of their lending portfolio, their lowest in years.

While Chinese banks tend to front - load loans early in the year to get higher - quality customers and win market share, the lofty figure was even higher than the most bullish forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.

FRANKFURT (Reuters)- European Central Bank inspectors found shortcomings and miscalculations worth more than 10 billion euros when going through euro zone banks» loan books last year, the ECB said on Monday.

The bank also has a tiered system with Gradifi: $ 100 / month ($ 1,200 per year) in the first year of employment; up to $ 150 / month ($ 1,800 per year) in the second year; up to $ 200 / month ($ 2,400 per year) in the third year up until the loans are paid off.

As the economy has muddled along the past few years, banks have been criticized for making it hard for small businesses to get loans.

By the end of June, six years after the passage of Dodd - Frank, bank business loans of less than $ 1 million stood at $ 328 billion — not very far off from that 2008 peak.

If you own a small firm and have been in operation for less than three years and have a credit score of below 650, you likely won't be able to secure a small business loan from a large bank.

While interest rates have been historically low for the past few years, a consequence has been that banks became stingy when it came to making loans.

Over the years their second line of financing was a loan from a bank or the Small Business Administration.

Pickel was 36 years old, an employee at a savings and loan bank, and married with four children when, after working a late night preparing files that he says probably netted the bank about $ 15,000, his boss chastised him for leaving the light on in the executive washroom.

Since 2008 auto loans from the Canadian banks have grown at an annual compound growth rate of 21 %, hitting $ 72 billion as of the end of last year.

Their consumer loans in the year to February increased by about 3 percent, while non-bank lending to households during the same period soared by 9 percent, showing that banks» sluggish consumer lending is not a question of a weak loan demand.

For Jeff Austin, president and chief operating officer of Austin Travel Corp., a 225 - employee chain of travel agencies based in Melville, N.Y., his 10 - year - long relationship with his bank's loan officers has survived several rounds of bank mergers.

Bank loans to the private sector in the first two months of this year were 0.9 percent below their depressed year - earlier levels.

«We are beginning to see some deterioration in the credit quality of oil and gas loans to borrowers that used high volumes of debt to finance their growth over the past several years,» Grant Wilson, director of commercial credit for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a banking regulator, told Bloomberg in an interview.

«But given the financing opportunities that exist for us in the private - equity arena and our growth rate this year of 25 % per month, we were able to win a loan commitment from a bank that would come into effect as soon as we carried out a private placement,» notes CEO Brad Galle.

The accusation from the US administration is that Chinese policy and cheap loans from state banks were behind the flurry of deals over the past three years.