In this role, Ms. Donovan draws from an extensive background in community finance, capital markets and financial innovation.

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Juridica and other litigation-finance firms tell investors they provide an alternative to stocks and bonds that is uncorrelated with the financial markets.

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Scheinrock is actually a CPA with extensive experience in international financial markets, corporate finance, capital structure, acquisitions and strategic investments.

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This is dangerous given Brazil's current financial needs and the unwillingness of international capital markets to finance them.

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called for a more rational return to calm and reality in financial markets, which have responded skittishly to euro zone debt, according to Thomson Reuters.

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But as long as neither eurozone taxpayers nor the global financial markets are willing to finance their current borrowing, the feeling is that austerity and recession are the best they can do.

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But what I will say is, for any financial stabilization program to succeed, to convince the markets to come back and finance a sovereign, there has got to be political commitment on the part of the sovereign.

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Financial globalisation spread capital more widely, markets evolved, businesses were able to finance new ventures and ordinary people had unprecedented access to borrowing and foreign exchange.

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"We commit to continue working together to stabilize financial markets and restore the flow of credit, to support economic growth, " G-7 finance ministers and central bankers said in a joint statement Friday evening.

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