Sentences with phrase «issue at funding»

Not exact matches

Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats have stalled even though the program enjoys broad bipartisan support over the all - important issue of funding, with Democrats balking at proposals cut an Obamacare public health fund to finance an extension of CHIP.

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz discussed this issue with a few Canadian reporters at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington over the weekend.

«I think many states would have a serious challenge in providing 80 % of funding for viable infrastructure projects,» said one lobbyist closely involved in tracking the issue, referring to the component of the White House plan that caps federal investment at 20 %.

This is a clear instance of modern - day VCs who increasingly look at funding (and mentoring) ventures that are focussed at actually offering solutions to plaguing issues and to the sectors that deserve these most believes Dhakad.

I think that for us to solve these issues, with the lack of diversity and the lack of funding for women in tech we need male allies at the table.»

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn at Greenlight Capital has made plenty of headlines in demanding that Oppenheimer open up the spigots and issue preferred shares that Einhorn believes would increase Apple's stock by one - third.

Perth - based rare earths explorer Greenland Minerals and Energy will undertake a $ 6.1 million non-renounceable rights issue to fund ongoing work at its Kvanefield project.

At 1871, we have companies (in addition to Peanut Butter) dealing with similar issues in education (Learnmetrics), funds transfers (Pangea), social services (mRelief), etc..

A private equity fund looks at the ERP issue similar to the No Marketing Spend — it's an opportunity to invest in the business, so better information is available to managers (and the private equity fund).

Shares in Geopacific Resources were up 9.3 per cent today as the company announced a $ 3 million rights issue, with plans to use the funds to step up exploration activity at its Cambodian Kou Sa project.

In addition, a further $ 1.3 million has been raised through a placement at the same issue price, bringing total funds raised before costs to $ 13 million.

At issue is how private equity firms report how they calculate average net returns in past funds in their marketing materials, the sources said.

As western editor Michael McCullough notes in this issue, Saskatchewan's NDP opposition has proposed a savings fund for the province's resource royalties (page 14), an idea aimed at ensuring long - term prosperity.

Although not an official view, Valerie Szczepanik, head of the SEC's distributed ledger group, said at a bitcoin conference in May that companies creating and issuing tokens to raise funds are responsible for protecting their investors, according to a Reuters report.

«This is not unlike the dotcom bubble of 2000,» said a partner at a venture capital fund in Shanghai, who didn't want to be named because of the issue's sensitivity.

«The public funds, at least in Pennsylvania, are structured to enable the bank to make a loan that they might not be able to make without the public debt behind them by enhancing the loan - to - value, reducing the risk to [the bank], and then passing on some benefits [to the borrower] in the form of lower interest rates, which help cash - flow issues.»

At R&E as many as five people are involved in approving and issuing payments — an effective safeguard against the possibility that an unethical staffer might try to cut an extra check or siphon off funds through payments to a dummy supplier.

«Even if you believe the managers at a fund like HYLD can beat the market — and they've run into some real issues over the past year on the performance front — do you think they can beat the market by 1.18 percent per year?»

One reason for looking at junk bonds is that the firms that issue junk bonds are closer on the risk continuum to a large mass of firms that are too small and too weak to issue bonds at all, and that rely on banks or the informal capital market for funds.

At issue is that, by having two separate networks with two separate blockchains, anyone who held funds in the first iteration (ethereum) is now the owner of funds on the second (ethereum classic).

Because tokens have a price, they can be issued and sold en masse at the inception of a new protocol to fund its development, similar to the way startups have used Kickstarter to fund product development.

By self - funding, Cavale could force INFLCR to build its own track record with its product, clients and revenues, and ultimately raise a seed round at what he believes to be a fair valuation as opposed to giving up a large piece of his new company at a discount, which is often an issue with raising money pre-revenue.

so now the issue is whether the bond market (or macro hedge funds) eased too much thinking the Fed would choke off liquidity and now is staring at still a weaker dollar and high commodity prices indicating an elevated level of excess liquidity.

The duration of a rate lock depends on the agreement you arrive at with your lender; usually it lasts for 30 or 60 days, but a lock can be issued for longer periods of time if the underlying deal being funded is more complex and requires more time to close.

On this issue among others — like funding the government, raising the federal borrowing limit and financing highways — such business groups have found themselves at odds with traditional Republican allies who increasingly reflect a new populist strain of conservatism in the party that is often hostile toward big business.

The researchers calculate that the rational response to a reduction of a percentage point in the rate at which banks themselves can raise funds is to boost the credit limits of the 37 % of cards issued to those with the highest credit ratings by $ 2,203 each.

The fund under normal circumstances invests in at least 65 % of its total assets in a diversified portfolio of fixed income instruments of varying maturities, including bonds issued by both U.S. and non-U.S. public - or private - sector entities.

At the same time, what is counted as cash on the sidelines, whether in money market funds, or as tiny balances in equity funds, is nothing but a mountain of short - term debt securities, mostly Treasury bills, that have been issued and must be held by somebody until they are retired.

As a result of these agreements, Retrophin paid out $ 2.8 million in cash and issued 11,000 Retrophin shares, and Shkreli diverted an additional 47,610 Retrophin shares for the benefit of himself and his MSMB Funds, resulting in a benefit to him and to them of more than $ 4.5 million (at current market prices).1

While the recent Champion Auto Sales, LLC et al. v Pearl Beta Funding, LLC decision was a win for MCA companies because it determined at the appellate level that an MCA contract issued by Pearl Beta Funding to Champion Auto Sales «was not a usurious transaction,» many lawyers are saying that, more than anything, this -LSB-...]

The practice at issue involves trustee banks overseeing the vast and complex mortgage pools bought by pension funds, mutual funds and others.

As a result of these agreements, Retrophin paid out $ 200,000 in cash and issued 581,000 Retrophin shares, resulting in a benefit to Shkreli and his MSMB Funds of more than $ 17.3 million (at current market prices).

Similarly, at Shkreli's direction, Retrophin's then outside counsel subsequently drafted a settlement agreement in which Retrophin (not Shkreli) would issue Blanton 100,000 shares in exchange for releases of Shkreli, the MSMB Funds, and Retrophin.

Alejo Costa, the head of strategy at Buenos Aires - based brokerage Puente, estimates Argentina will need to issue about $ 11 billion dollars to pay the holdouts and an additional $ 8 billion dollars to fund its fiscal needs.

And it seems at least theoretically possible there was some kind of a fund to deal with these issues without telling Trump — thereby maintaining Trump's plausible deniability.

Against the background of MiFID II, fund managers are also focusing on a number of other urgent issues, with stewardship at the head of the list, as Cynthia Alers explains.

Ameriprise cooperated with the Commission and voluntarily identified the affected accounts, issued payments including interest to the affected customers, and converted eligible customers to the mutual fund share class with the lowest expenses for which they are eligible, at no cost.

In a recent example, an oil and gas company issued a green bond aimed at funding projects focusing on energy efficiency and low emissions technologies.

An excerpt of an email suggests that, from the very start, Goldman executives were concerned about the issue of transparency at the new fund and its reliance on borrowed money.

a municipal bond that is secured by an escrow fund; the escrow fund comes from the issuer floating a second bond issue and using the proceeds from that second bond issue to purchase government obligations, typically U.S. Treasuries, proceeds from the second bond issue create an escrow fund to mature at the first call date of the first bond issue to pre-refund that issue; bond issuers will typically do this during times of lower interest rates to lower their interest costs

On March 9, 2017, the Company issued (i) 125,000 shares of common stock of the Company to Redwood Fund LP («Redwood») in exchange for cash of $ 200,000; and (ii) 125,000 shares of common stock of the Company to Imperial Strategies, LLC («Imperial Strategies») in exchange for certain services rendered, valued at $ 200,000, as of the date of such issuance.

«We will be issuing a contactless debit card, enabling you to spend your funds instantly in shops, online and at any ATM,» the company detailed, adding that customers» balances «will be immediately available» on their Bitwala debit cards.

Lastly, our good friends at the Incrementum Fund, Ronald Stoeferle and Mark Valek, who our readers know as the authors the annual «In Gold We Trust» report, have released the inaugural issue of their new Crypto Research Report this December in cooperation with Demelza Kelso Hays and several other contributors.

Budget 2018 continues this Ottawa - knows - best trend for issues that are wholly constitutionally provincial: the opioid crisis (health care), early learning and child care (education), more cash for «seasonal industries» via the provinces, a learning bond experiment in Ontario, apprenticeship programs, funding for harnessing «big data» at universities (again, education and health care in that list).

Particularly good to see someone explain that the impact on bond funds is not the simplistic «1 % rise in bank rates means loss of duration %» but depends on the interest demanded at that point in the curve and normal supply / demand issues which are massively distorted for linkers.

Sound financial policy requires that the Government fully fund any budget deficit by issues of securities to the private sector at market interest rates, and not borrow from the central bank.

According to an RCMP filing, Mr. Wright recalled telling four people that he would personally provide funds to Mr. Duffy: David van Hemmen (Mr. Wright's executive assistant), Benjamin Perrin (legal counsel to the Prime Minister at the time), Chris Woodcock (director of issues management in the PMO at the time, now chief of staff to Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver) and Conservative Senator Irving Gerstein.

At the same time, CEX.IO pays much attention to the issues of security, and the strong anti-DDoS protection as well as level 2 PCI DSS evidence that the service ensures the security of customers» funds and personal data.

This issue of the Macroprudential Bulletin looks at how euro area banks are linked to each other and to investment funds and how this may affect the stability of the financial system.

This change of behaviour needs to occur at the banks that issue the bank bills, as well as those that buy them including the investment funds and state treasury corporations.