Benveniste told Pavlo the only way he could get bank financing was for MCI to cover any collections shortfalls.

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Benveniste proposed that Manatee could deliver MCI's receivables in days instead of months by collecting from resellers' clients directly.

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In March 1996 Pavlo met with Benveniste and several executives of National Bank of Canada at the swank Georgia Club in Atlanta.

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Mann introduced Pavlo to Mark Benveniste, president of Manatee Capital, an Atlanta firm set up in 1994 to factor, or collect, debts, for caller-paid phone services, including Mann's Denmark Dial.

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