Most business school courses focus on high-level topics like financial engineering or venture-capital funding.
The bank has 44 branches in Northern Ireland and runs a financial services joint venture with the UK Post Office.
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The audited financial statements of venture funds (if any exist) typically state that the majority of the portfolio consists of non-marketable securities the valuations of which are determined by the manager of the fund.
The emigrants' technical and business skills, commercial relationships, and financial capital can all be harnessed to make long-distance economic contributions through foreign direct investment, venture funding, financial investments, and commercial and educational exchanges.
As an entrepreneur, you need to paint a realistic picture of how to fund the venture, where and how the funds will be used, how you will ensure enough cash flow, and also your projected financial position of the venture over the first five years of its life.
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The companies are negotiating a sale of ING's 49% in the venture to KB Financial.
Apparently any nervousness about Venture's financial disposition was mitigated by interest rates as high as 12% on the company's junk bonds.
In May, Canada's Sun Life Financial Inc formed a joint venture with Vietnam's PVI Holdings, allowing the Canadian insurer to sell insurance products.
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To uncover this bias, the researchers gave 10-page pitch books to 101 graduate business students, crammed with financial information about a hypothetical venture-capital investment.
These are just some of the reasons now is a great time for financial technology startups and why venture capital is flooding in to the sector.
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Last year, 22 companies withdrew registrations to go public, according to Thomson Financial, many of them venture-backed companies in the tech or life sciences fields seeking to list on the Nasdaq market.
Most of these fleet-footed companies were financed by venture capital, a financial art form that Silicon Valley has perfected.
The bursting of the Internet bubble, several years of unfriendly public markets and changes in Wall Street and financial regulations have been hard on venture capital over the past decade.
The key opportunity for Sony was when the mobile venture posted yet another dismal financial quarter in October, and Ericsson was finally ready to sell.
The result is that individuals who borrow money and run into financial problems primarily because of a business venture have been lumped in with those who loaded up on debt for consumer goodies.
In it, Mr. Minkow wrote that Lennar steals money from its joint-venture partners and misrepresents its true financial condition.
It has financial support from the Royal Society and a venture capital fund.
The expected offering follows 13 other deals in 2013 backed by financial sponsors such as private-equity or venture-capital firms.
Well, before the mutual fund and financial planning industries convinced everyone that such a venture was pure folly, that is.
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That forced a recent financial restructuring, under which 3i, a venture-capital company, is expanding its stake in the firm from 20% to 49%.
It's another example of how the current debt crisis is affecting all corners of the financial markets, including the niche world of venture capital.
If start up and growing companies need funding, financial institutions, including angels, bankers and venture capitalists make note to consider how they might participate.
Venture capitalists and others from the financial world will be looking for possible deals in an industry that has never been a dependable profit maker.
Earlier this year Sobern agreed to produce and distribute films with the venture capital group Inbursa, the financial arm of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Hel.
Through a joint venture with Absa Bank, Woolworths offers financial services such as loans, debit cards and home insurance solutions to its customers.
Rather than being a hard-nosed venture capitalist, he is more like a financial father-figure to young entrepreneurs.
Indeed, the venture capital market was changing even before the financial crunch, as returns were not good, and it became increasingly short-term.
Earlier this year Sobern agreed to produce and distribute films with the venture capital unit of Grupo Inbursa, the financial arm of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Hel.
New York is rolling into its third year operating the FinTech Innovation Lab which brings together a small group of selected early stage financial technology vendors with leading city banks, Accenture and venture capital firms for three months of intensive collaboration.
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Bibb, who owns a tiny stake in Xinhua Financial, says he's no longer involved in the TV venture now that he has finished raising an undisclosed sum to get it going.
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