Another big part of it was the imposition of capital and exchange controls and the introduction of a dollar peg for the ringgit.

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These include not just the initial capital inflow itself but also the introduction of better technology and new management skills, not to mention greater competition for the existing domestic institutions.

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The introduction of the euro has created a big single capital market, making it easier and cheaper to raise money for investment.

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Dame Shirley Bassey wrote the introduction to the book called Cardiff - Rebirth of a Capital.

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In the meantime some speculate that the introduction of equity-based crowdfunding will put pressure on venture capital as an asset class.

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C. filings, Jericho State Capital was paid a ninety-thousand-dollar fee, plus stock warrants, for making the introduction.

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We saw the introduction of the microprocessor, personal computers, spreadsheets, word processing and West Coast style venture capital firms to fund them.

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It has also set up capital controls in order to avoid a bank run, the first time such measures have been introduced since the introduction of the euro in 1999.

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The introduction of hosted servers, co-location and managed services meant that even those entities, without significant capital or technical resources, could gain benefits previously unavailable to the start-up.

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