Sentences with phrase «public lending of»

``... to conclude that such minimum fees are excluded from scale agreements would result in the SAA having a limited impact on the achievement of Parliament's express recognition that artists should be compensated for the use of their works, including the public lending of those works,» the ruling states.

This would enable also smaller libraries to engage into public lending of e-books, the concrete implications on the relevant market and business models related to public e-lending are difficult to predict.

Not exact matches

Since the Italian public opinion does not want a euro exit, the political class will probably decide that the former is better, and that it is less humiliating to be in a conditional lending program run by one of their own - the ECB President Mario Draghi.

Concurrent with this orgy of public debt, the State encourages massive expansion of private credit via fractional lending, low bank reserves, and other forms of leverage, in a vain attempt to stimulate demand in an economy burdened with overcapacity, declining employment, marginal return on capital and saturated markets.

Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets; and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations.

«There's an ongoing lending shortfall, and we believe any effort to jump - start new businesses or franchises is going to help the economy,» says Matthew Haller, the IFA's vice president of public affairs and chief of staff.

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.

TSF includes off - balance sheet forms of financing that exist outside the conventional bank lending system, such as initial public offerings, loans from trust companies and bond sales.

Bob Coleman, the editor of the small - business lending industry newsletter The Coleman Report, says that his public - sector pick would be Canales because she did a «great job» running those targeted financing programs.

(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?)

After nearly 150 years of catering to the wealty elite and helping fast - growing startups either go public or sell themselves to larger competitors, Goldman Sachs is finally getting into the consumer lending market, and will soon offer small personal loans.

Lending Club, which went public in 2014, has seen its share price drop in recent months, and like the rest of the alternative lending industry, faces the prospect of increased scrutiny from federal regulators.

Land is still its largest component — and some 80 percent of «capital» gains in the U.S. economy are land - price gains Site values are increased by public investment in streets, water and sewer facilities and transportation hubs, in school systems, by zoning restrictions, by the general level of prosperity, and most of all, by whatever bankers will lend.

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.

Instead of the governments taking over the banks as in Europe, instead of steering their lending in the public interest, the Treasury is leaving control over to the same guys who have been mismanaging the credit system all along.

Funds raised by lending sites increased 111 percent to $ 1.2 billion, while equity crowdfunding, the growth of which has been limited by regulation governing selling shares to the public, was the smallest chunk, providing $ 116 million.

Public awareness of alternative finance options like peer - to - peer (P2P) lending and equity crowdfunding is increasing, and governments are updating regulations to allow more investors to participate in these types of markets.

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.

The effect of corporate tax cuts will end up being a bookkeeping entry: the public will give tax breaks to the super-wealthy, so the super-wealthy can lend it back to the public.

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.

On Aug. 16, three U.S. public pension funds sued six major investment banks alleging collusion in the provision of stock lending services.

In contrast, almost half of OneMain Financial's 2016 lending volume went to borrowers with credit scores under 620, according to the company's public filings.

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.

But a quarter of U.S. real estate already is in negative equity — worth less than the mortgages attached to it — and the property market is still shrinking, so banks are not lending except with public Federal Housing Administration guarantees to cover whatever losses they may suffer.

Just a week after the abrupt closure of BitConnect's lending and exchange platform, investors are seeking legal action to claim back their funds, according to public document.

He also lends his name to several websites in the binary options trading industry, though he doesn't reveal all of them in public.

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

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

Truth claims that seem to be specifiable in that they lend themselves to public verification are often called matters of reason.

Former Oxheart somm and general irreverent Justin Vann thinks esoteric grapes go great with single malt, thank you very much; he focuses on these two types of booze at Public Services, lending wine some of the cool factor of whiskey, and whiskey the specificity of wine.

Its either that or he pulls the old «its just a marketing thing where Im endangering children and setting public neuroscience awareness back decades in order to make a couple million extra dollars out of the pockets of suckers» defense, and I just do nt see how a humble classy guy like Wilson would ever cheapen his name by lending it to a bottle of snake oil that could wind up giving its purchasers real - world neurological damage if they were to use it in a manner consistent with what Wilson tells them.

In the murky world of finance there plenty of private and public financial institutions who ready to lend the money once they see how asset rich one is.

Saifuku's choice to roll on hints at her positive nature, a trait her colleagues said she lends to all of her efforts, whether planning special events, running summer arts camps or dealing with the public.

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.

This tendency could lend extra credibility to BP's link, since it shows up at the top of the search results list, making it an «Orwellian» attempt to control the public dialogue (a view amplified by media coverage saying that the company «bought search terms» rather than «bought ads related to search terms).

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is lending a helping hand to some of the city's newest entrepreneurs...

Individuals should be banned from lending parties money, donations should be limited, spending capped, and state funding increased if the public are to regain trust in the funding of political parties.

«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.

Several Long Island elected leaders lent their support to the LIRR's planned Main Line expansion during the second day of public hearings over the proposed third track project.

At 10 a.m., NYC Department of Consumer Affairs Commissioner Lorelei Salas and Councilman Rafael Espinal, Jr. host a public hearing on predatory lending in the used car industry, CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Square, 3rd floor, community room 3/115 -116, Queens.

Public comments by some Republicans lent support to this latter claim, since many discussed their expectations of picking up several Republican seats.

We entreat the general Public and Members of the NDC not to lend credence to NPP's political agenda.

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.

A growth policy, which is desperately needed, could be generated without any increase in public borrowing, by switching Mervyn King's further # 25bn tranche of QE from the banks to industrial investment, by taxing the ultra-rich on the # 155bn gains they've made (according to the Sunday Times) over the last 3 years, and / or by instructing the nationalised banks RBS and Lloyds to prioritise their lending on jobs in house - building and infrastructure.

Inspired by a series of exposés in The Post and The New York Times, the Senate Consumer Protection Committee on Wednesday is holding a public hearing to scrutinize the lawsuit - lending industry's more grotesque tactics.

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.

«The way that the U.S. political and health systems are set up lends itself to mismanagement, confusion and uncoordinated responses,» said co-author Phillip Singer, doctoral student in the School of Public Health.

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.

As a first step, I am lending my voice to the United Nation's #WildforLife campaign to help raise public awareness of the issue as an important step towards tackling the demand.»