Sentences with phrase «public lending for»

Other highlights include a call to double renewable energy generation by 2020, an end public lending for coal plants abroad, and aggressive goals for installing renewable energy on military bases and federally subsidized housing.

Not exact matches

A recent investigation by The Seattle Times and the Center for Public Integrity questioned the lending habits of a Berkshire unit that manufactures mobile homes.

Public sector banks are likely to be more hesitant to lend money to these borrowers because chances of a turnaround for companies with high levels of debt seem unlikely, at least in the near term, according to Awtani.

(Is SoFi waiting for the public markets to like online lending again, or is he trying to shift the image of SoFi away from just online lending?)

The federal government, meanwhile, is trying to tame the market by tightening mortgage lending standards and warning the public at every opportunity that Vancouver is a risky city for buying real estate.

However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.

Lenders competing for borrowers might use the UCC as a marketing tool, using public records to find customers that are already familiar with their lending products to pitch them lower priced offers.

Many public reviews praise iHelp and its parent company, SLFC, for its long - term standing in the lending industry and general transparency although iHelp does not offer the option of interest rate reduction with automatic payments, borrowers praise iHelp's repayment options.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The Financial Services Authority, Indonesia's financial services regulator known as the OJK, is preparing a regulation that would allow local financial technology companies to lend money directly to customers to provide more financing choices for the public, its senior officials said on Tuesday (14/02).

Warren became widely known after arranging 30 P2P executives and thought leaders in order to provide the public a go - to source for lending insights within the peer to peer lending space.

Yet rather than taking this opportunity to run these banks as public utilities and lower their charges for credit - card services — or most important of all, to stop their lending to speculators and gamblers — governments left these banks operating as part of the «casino capitalism» that has become their business plan.

Caution: The Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 makes it a criminal offense for a public company to lend money to its executives or directors.

Carothers would like to see more businesses provide a discreet place for working mothers to pump breast milk; greater acceptance of nursing in public areas, such as malls; and family and friends of breast - feeding mothers lending more support.

A political silence on issues like payday lending has led to a desperate need for other voices in the public debate - and it's religious ones who are, increasingly, filling the gap.

«As public opinion continues to shift in favor of marriage equality across the country and particularly in New York, we are honored to have Russell Simmons lend his voice to the New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Campaign,» said HRC President Joe Solmonese.

America's recent shift toward urban living would lend itself to a desire for more bike lanes and public transportation, but that won't eliminate the need for interstates and quality roadways.

In the lead - up to the speech, Quinn came to the New Amsterdam Market recently, lending her support to the campaign for a 7 - day - a-week public market at the Seaport.

Mr. Massey, who has lent himself more than $ 2.7 million so far and has already paid some of it back, is not participating in the city's public campaign finance program, which offers a six - to - one match for the first $ 175 from each donor.

If the applications submitted this week are granted, it would be the first time ever for Queens to lend its treasured public parkland to for - profit organizations for paid - admission events.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, came to Buffalo today to lend his support to teachers and parents protesting the rushed action taken by the School Board to allow charter schools to take over their public schools facing closure.

According to Appiah, the general public should lend a helping hand to the victims of the flood in what he described as a «difficult time» for the nation.

HUD has an adaptation plan in place to assess those risks and prepare public housing, home lending and other programs for the challenges of climate change but it seems unlikely Carson would make that a priority.

Single mom constantly going on a smooth transition from lend initial client screening to play offense if you have asked police for public media seo.

Tim (Johnson), who teaches in a public high school in the Los Angeles area, and Lee (DeWitt), a yoga instructor, and their toddler son, Jude (played by Jude Swanberg, who is the son of Swanberg and his wife, the filmmaker Kris Swanberg), arrive at the luxurious house of one of her clients, which has been lent to them for a sort of near - staycation.

Second, in deciding policies, schools are accountable for democratic and public deliberations; even with recent revelations of corrupt practices among CEOs and boards of directors and meltdowns in the mortgage lending community, minimal public oversight of corporate governance currently exists.

New Mexico Association of Nonpublic Schools v. Moses involves a state textbook - lending program for public and private schools, both secular and sectarian.

The public is somewhat less inclined to favor vouchers for low - income families in 2014 than it was a year ago, but it is a bit more willing to lend support to universal vouchers for all families.

A state emergency loan board agreed to lend the Detroit Public Schools $ 111 million to make up for a funding shortfall, on the same day state schools superintendent Mike Flanagan approved the district's new deficit elimination plan.

For example, by directing teachers to focus more individual attention on each student — or to encourage them to study and learn at their own pace, focusing on topics of their choosing — we might be lending credence to the notion that public education is a private commodity rather than a public good.

Last year, Amanda lent her expertise in DC history as a content expert for BLISS: Building Literacy in the Social Studies, where she supported the work of a BLISS Teacher Leader who was developing a module for use throughout DC Public Schools (DCPS).

Representatives from the Buffalo Urban League also attended to lend their support, calling this a push for equity and fairness in public education.

As readers know, AFT subsidized Democrats for Public Education to the tune of $ 99,000 (not including $ 12,500 that the union has lent to the group).

One great thing about ebooks is that fact that many public libraries around the world support ebook lending for free.

(The Digital Economy Act 2010 passed by the previous government did include Section 43 which amends copyright for some public library lending.)

This program will serve a twofold purpose, first in offering libraries and their patrons even more ebook content for lending programs, and second in terms of helping indie authors in the process of getting their books discovered by a larger public audience.

As library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.

3M's Library System loves to show up at a packed conference and show off something new and innovative for the world of library ebook lending, such as at last year's ALA Conference when all the buzz was about the dedicated e-reader designed specifically to be checked out from local public libraries.

«While no single business model will offer the best terms for all libraries, this report details lending terms that public libraries can use to craft model contracts that work for their library systems.»

While the struggle for a satisfactory condition continues in the world of ebook lending for public libraries, some companies are still managing to make progress with digital catalogs.

It feels like every new step in the right direction also leads to a host of new problems and closures for public libraries where digital lending is concerned.

Three public library systems in Minnesota, overseeing a total of twenty - five individual libraries, became the most recent of the eighty library systems across the country to benefit from 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service's help in utilizing ebook lending for their patrons.

One of the polarizing issues in the U.S. ebook market right now is the conflict over public library access to ebook titles for lending, but we may be able to take a lesson from Libranda's new partnership with OverDrive to afford access to new and bestselling ebook titles to library patrons in Spain.

While their methods will vary on how they choose to improve ebook lending of their titles, only Simon & Schuster remains the only major US publisher that is not releasing its ebook titles for public library lending in any way.

Essentially, the leadership finally expressed that it was fed up with the current upheaval in public library ebook lending, with different members of the Big Six publishing houses setting their own rules — from no lending of our new titles, to a book can only be borrowed a specific number of times, to no lending of any of our titles at all — it was chaos for the libraries and disappointment for their patrons.

Just specifically relating to library lending — under PLR (Public Lending Right) in the UK & Ireland (run by the British Library) authors (and collaborators e.g. narrators for audio etc.) are paid for * every * loan of their books (including electronic and audio).

In November 2007, «a significant grant from the company Hewlett - Packard France will make it possible for a partner of the BnH, the Raymond - Poincare Hospital in Garches (near Paris), to create the first lending service of laptop computers in a French public hospital.

The «Big 6» publishers are increasingly skittish about providing ebooks for public libraries to lend.

Unlike in the US where an author is only paid when a library purchases a particular title for lending from its catalog, under the UK law Public Lending Right, authors are compensated at each patron checkout, as well.

When Coates spoke to GoodeReader in February about this lending model, those titles were reported to be coming from all of the Big Six publishers, something that public libraries have not been able to achieve for ebook lending.