The impact investing industry channels capital to market-based solutions in areas such as affordable housing, clean technology, financial services for the poor, sustainable agriculture and other related sectors while targeting returns ranging from below market to market rate.

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To shield themselves temporarily from the volatility in financial markets, those with weaker financial structures may need some form of capital controls, preferably market-based.

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The company, which has raised an unspecified seed financing from Spark Capital and market maker GETCO, provides browser-based tools for anyone with basic programming knowledge to create algorithms and simulate actual trading with them.

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And we have supported the possible use of market-based measures to control capital inflows, for instance along Chilean lines.

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The New York-based market maker also made a bid today to buy Knight Capital.

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Capital acquired WhiteHorse Capital, a Dallas-based CLO manager, in October 2011 to expand middle-market investing.

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Both of the above market-based solutions offer real potential to reduce the cost-of-capital for early stage biotech companies .

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"We basically made the decision that the government needs to get into the mortgage market, " says Dan Alpert, managing director of New York-based investment bank Westwood Capital, who has extensive experience dealing with mortgage-backed securities.

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