Sentences with phrase «companies bank on»

Phone companies bank on parents buying cell phones at this time for their recent graduates who are heading off to college.

Cases like this involve companies banking on students to believe they can qualify for student loan discharge with help; of course, this help isn't free.

Think of a forestry company banking on huge investment to reforest large land tracts and sell CO2 credits.

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British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

In February, Quartz reported that Dropbox was in talks with banks on plans for an IPO, though nothing official about an IPO has been released by the company.

This makes Total, which also continues to optimize the energy efficiency of all the company's installations, one of the majors the World Bank can count on to achieve its goals.

For example, an experienced media sales person selling to property developers may not find it as easy to get to grips with banks and financial institutions, or a B2B company that expand from the automotive industry to transportation logistics, may find their sales professionals struggling to understand what goes on.

It is, however, unclear if Canada's banks — collectively the country's largest companies — could reverse the tide of expertise migrating southward on their own.

The company and its eponymous product, created by serial entrepreneur and technology expert David Gurle, is scarcely out of startup mode, but already it's making waves as a potentially disrupting new force on Wall Street, thanks in large part to support from some of the world's largest investment banks.

According to the latest Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, my company's monthly analysis on small business loan approval rates, big banks are granting one in four requests for funding.

Biotech is a «crazy» industry, in that there's no easy way to measure a company's worth, because actually helping patients is at least 10 years away, explains Brian Bloom, president of Bloom, Burton & Co., a Toronto - based investment bank focused on the health - care sector.

For all the hoopla surrounding the digital economy and virtual businesses, the success of many ventures still hinges on serious capital outlay; indeed, a recent benchmark report by the Business Development Bank of Canada identifies «significant» investment in fixed assets as a key variable that helps mid-size companies grow into large ones.

«But while it's a hard one to call, they could put an asset test on it — meaning employee stock options would be taxed more heavily for those employees who work for big public companies with a large asset base, like the Big Five banks.

«Our other outstanding CEOs, Mary Erdoes (50), Asset and Wealth Management, and Doug Petno (52), Commercial Bank, along with our Chief Financial Officer, Marianne Lake (48), took on expanded roles last year and have played progressively more significant roles partnering across the firm in helping manage the company,» Dimon said in a statement.

When the Bank of Canada released its latest survey of business managers on Monday, it confirmed what we've known for some time now — companies in Canada are a panicked bunch.

Brand went on to share that companies should add data to «existing reporting and business intelligence tools that help those retailers make sense of these massive banks of in - store data with a new layer of intel to their decision - making at the executive level.»

Metropolitan Bank, popular with cryptocurrency companies, has ceased crypto - related transactions on its international wire service.

Shares of the company, which owns a number of landmark titles including People, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune, climbed as much as 9 % Thursday on the news that it has hired Morgan Stanley and Bank of America as financial advisers.

For example, front - line caisse workers have expressed irritation with having to juggle different protocols and technological systems for each of the company's various service offerings — personal banking, credit cards, investment accounts, insurance and so on — while serving a single member.

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.

Of the 246 companies on the index, 12 are Canadian, including Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RY), Canadian National Railway (TSX: CNR) and Telus Corp. (TSX: T).

Sitting on the shelf for a year due to financial issues with its production company, this comedy based on the 1997 Loomis Fargo Bank robbery, which at the time was the second - largest cash robbery in US history, is finally hitting screens.

A bank famous for investments in commodities, Goldman Sachs's equity research team initiated coverage on a slew of major names, complete with company - by - company synopses and price targets.

MasterCard is offering banks a holy grail: The company isn't charging them anything to use its system beyond the small cut of each credit card transaction that it's always been getting and it's letting the banks splash their own branding on the apps.

In many cases, companies spend far more than $ 13,000 on employees» insurance, yet those workers could only bank that much lower limit.

We don't want a revolution, we would just like a country where we can put a tax on nuclear companies and banks.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Credit Suisse and Allen & Company served as lead managers on the deal.

J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Wedbush have been named underwriters for the company, which plans to go public on the Nasdaq as «KALA.»

«The banks have no interest in financing small business unless they are 100 % secured on company assets, personal insurance and guarantees,» said a Bank of Montreal client based in Saint - Laurent, Quebec.

On top of the risk of federal prosecution, IRS targeting and asset seizure, cannabis entrepreneurs have to cope with the hazards of conducting a business that deals mostly in cash, since a majority of traditional financial institutions — banks, credit card issuers, and payment transaction companies — won't provide services to the industry.

If you can't get a bank loan, ask your boss if you can finance the purchase out of profits on a schedule that doesn't pinch the company's cash flow, says Joseph Fulvio, a management consultant for startups and emerging businesses.

But they're banking on — and here's where you should pay attention — companies with solid business plans and focus.

Fintech is a big opportunity for the Vision Fund, because cash is critical in building out lending and underwriting operations and there are plenty of areas where emerging companies can take on giant slow - moving banks.

«While they wanted to focus on distribution methods and details, I began explaining my vision for a whole host of new Student enterprises, from magazines to travel companies to banks.

That might seem like a huge stroke of luck for any company, but Johansson signed on after controversially severing her ties as an ambassador with human rights and aid organization Oxfam, which has long opposed Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

The agency also spied on Chinese banks and other companies, as well as former President Hu Jintao.

Those who believe Le Château still has life are banking on one thing: the company's aggressive move away from its traditional market toward a more mature one, with deeper pockets.

Instead of having banks determine the price of shares before the company officially opens up for trading to the public, Spotify stock price would be determined solely by supply and demand on the market.

Then, of course, there will also be the usual spate of product announcements as EMC seeks to retain its leadership in data storage, fending off upstarts like Pure Storage (pstg) and Nimble (nmbl) on the one hand, while it also seeks to prove its relevance in the emerging cloud computing era as Amazon (amzn) Web Services rents out computing capability, storage, and networking from a massive bank of shared infrastructure to companies of all sizes.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

It owes nearly $ 12 million, nearly $ 11 million of which is to Regions Bank, which sued the company in February, saying Dippin» Dots had defaulted on its debt.

The biggest company in Canada by market cap on the TSX — an admittedly capricious metric — is now Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which surpassed the Royal Bank of Canada this week.

«Since our company isn't one with much capital — our «assets» are our employees and contracts — we have been able to finance new programs under an accounts receivable margining system, in which the bank will loan us short - term funds based on our current contracts and receivables.

The banks» recent first - quarter earnings were generally strong, but their capital - markets divisions, which provide services such as advising other companies on mergers and acquisitions, are already suffering.

Local company FIRM Construction has won a $ 15.1 million contract for work on the second stage of Joseph Banks Secondary College in Banksia Grove.

«I'm not a frequent demonstration participant,» said Jodi Schwartz, a corporate tax lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a firm in Midtown Manhattan known for advising companies and banks on mergers and acquisitions.

The online - ad industry, however, is banking on the fact you'd rather see an ad for something in which you're interested, even if it means companies have extensive data on your surfing habits.

AdTheorent, the seventh advertising company on Inc.'s 2015 overall list, develops data - based technologies that enable partners like McDonald's and Bank of America to optimize the timing and targeting of their mobile ads to maximize engagement.

In June, Beijing's banking regulators ordered a group of lenders to assess their exposure to offshore acquisitions by a handful of companies that have been on overseas buying sprees, including HNA Group, Wanda Group, Anbang Insurance Group and Fosun International Ltd..