The incentive to lend short-term to other banks in emerging economies, which used to carry a small capital charge, will also be eliminated.
It allows a business to deduct the entire cost of a small capital purchase immediately, rather than writing it off over time and having to hassle with depreciation schedules.
It typically works in conjunction with another break, Sec. 179 that allows a business to deduct the entire cost of a small capital purchase immediately, rather than writing it off over time and having to hassle with depreciation schedules.
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At Peterson Partners, a small growth capital firm, we decided our business was going to be all about the entrepreneurs we backed.
Rates of return on invested capital are only a small fraction of that in the U.S. Over time, we get moderate to high rates of growth from a small amount of capital.
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The establishment of a registered legal entity, and the investment of at least a small amount of capital, denotes a level of commitment and permanence that a rep office does not.
Because capital is usually, and legitimately, a small percentage of assets, capital can easily go to zero and a perfectly sound institution can be declared insolvent and taken over by its insurer or some other government agencies.
Because the only thing more precious to a small business than capital is time.
At the time, I was the CEO of an NYSE investment banking firm and had been instrumental in raising a small amount of capital for Blockbuster.
Since they are leveraged institutions (they have a small amount of capital backing lots of assets), with nowadays more or less mechanical risk-management systems that in effect force them to sell when losses mount, this probably also increases volatility.
He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.
He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services -- not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.
How imperfect moments are handled can make the difference between a small situation or reputation capital vaporized in short order.
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Already armed with a small business card from Capital One, she figured why not use the bank's credit card-processing services, too?
Last night, I keynoted a small-city venture capital conference in Mankato, Minn.
In 1995 he sold the German bit of his company to Lufthansa Condor, a subsidiary of the German airline, giving him enough capital to buy a small fleet of Boeing planes, another selling-point over rivals still flying oily Tupolevs.
The SBA, which is a federal government agency, licensed L Capital in 2004 as a small business investment company, backing Leitersdorf through the purchase or guarantee of various securities.
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Before the Internet bubble burst, such deals were a common way for small tech companies to raise capital without issuing a lot of potentially dilutive shares.
So while a mismanaged emerging economy was bound to hit trouble in international capital markets, even a well managed but small economy might be overpowered by the force of vast international capital flows.
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So, for example, a big bank that had been around for decades would be allowed to lend much more relative to its capital than a small bank (the big bank would have what's known as "advance" status).
On Monday, DCM Capital, a small and virtually unknown London-based trading house, is set to launch a bold, and potentially risky, platform for retail customers which claims to give users the ability to translate social media sentiment into investible trading signals.
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The corporate owners may so appreciate the new capital from Fan-Pac that the Board of Directors (elected in part by the Fan-Pac) may authorize a small percentage of the new capital for charitable projects designed to help the communities that support the team.
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As The Economist went to press, it looked likely that a diluted version of the Volcker rule would pass, allowing banks to keep running hedge-fund and private-equity units for clients who want to invest in them, and perhaps to keep putting a small share of their own capital in them as well.
Like a venture-capital firm, they are seeding a number of small causes in a style that has come to be called venture philanthropy.
Large companies like Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lucent, Dell, Oracle and many others have become a big source of capital for small businesses.
The Moonlight was co-designed by a Dutch team and local residents of a small fishing village outside of the capital, Phnom Penh.
Start-ups still make up a small minority of German venture-capital deals.
Cutting the minimum capital requirement is a small positive step.
But as authors William Chandler and Holly Gwin explain in a recent study for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, China's capital markets are extremely small for a country its size.
The differences between an operating lease and a capital lease are quite small despite the rather large impact the difference in accounting can have on the balance sheet and economic earnings of the business.
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