The feeling in Brussels was that the financial crisis was the fault of the Anglo-Saxon finance model.
The current undergraduate finance model, where students borrow to study for three years in a UK institution, does not provide for a future in which students might want to take course units from a range of universities, both in the UK and abroad.
The argument is based on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. model of the 1930s.
An information web, linked by a common language, makes that disintermediated model of finance a more realistic possibility.
For the Conservatives, George Osborne said Mr Darling was "proving quite a defender of the old model of finance".
Using a finance-driven business model, BP outsourced many of its corporate functions to contractors and eliminated many of its own engineers.
Portfolio optimization is probably the most misunderstood and misused model in finance.
But many big state or local government projects, especially those conceived on the private-finance initiative (PFI) model, have a life of their own.
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The firm The Applied Finance Group also has a valuation model.
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The traditional model for a captive finance company is a wholly owned subsidiary like Ford Motor Credit Co. or Toyota Financial Services.
Personal-finance magazines based on the American model, such as France's Investir and Germany's Wertpapier, are already providing the industry with a growing pool of informed and interested investors.
One nonprofit, the Adventure Project, aims to combat the health issues associated with traditional cook stoves through an innovative business model that seeks to finance social enterprises.
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"If there were more people who are willing to bet on their own creative vision and finance themselves, then the business model becomes something they define, " he told Reuters.
Thus while the core micro finance is a for-profit model all other life quality supporting services are rendered either free or non-profit basis. and on core micro finance, through our focus on efficiency we probably offer a rate which is lower than not-for-profit NGOs too!
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Amazon redefined the opportunity and captured it with a very different financial model in which its suppliers helped finance its business.
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One model being talked about is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation introduced in the 1930s during the Depression.
In the Keynesian model, the money government borrows to finance the additional deficit spending magically appears in the form of cash in exchange for government bonds.
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He emphasized to me that his ability to understand finance and business has helped him be a better model and TV Host of Make me Supermodel on Bravo.
Valuation analysis was performed using The Applied Finance Group's quantitative (AFG)-valuation model.
As a result, the DIA has been asking donors each year to finance more than half of its operating expenses, a model that is simply not sustainable.
Individual circumstances demand creativity, and city officials have been happy to meet with municipal finance managers from as far as Australia to share its model.
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The "holds" issued Wednesday show "how much uncertainty there is with Facebook's revenue-generation business model, " said Reena Aggarwal, professor of finance at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, who also said tough market conditions may have been a contributing factor.
Monday morning euphoria over the deal to bail out Cyprus despite rescission of its levy on small bank deposits got stocks off to a good start but stumbled on subsequent comments by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Eurogroup head of eurozone finance ministers, that the Cyprus restructuring plan could be a model for fixing larger EU banking issues.
For that reason, expect plenty of international cooperation, but not a one-size fits all regulatory model or a massive Bretton Woods-style restructuring of global finance.
Some commentators feel that the Chinese investment boom must eventually run out of steam, whether for lack of good projects to finance or because the country will shift to a more consumption-led model.
Its director general John Longworth has called for a "new model economy" based on more spending on infrastructure and a rethink on access to finance.
The head of marketing finance at a major Financial Service company told me that every year they run their marketing optimization model and it tells them that they overspend on TV, and under spend in print.
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