British banks argue that their role as providers of long-term finance to sectors with changeable credit ratings might be compromised.
Three main factors are blamed for the likely constraints on long-term finance.
IPPs are fiendishly complicated deals to arrange, requiring long-term finance from lenders, long-term agreements with utilities to buy the electricity and long-term deals with energy firms to supply the fuel.
But since these rents are made at the expense of the pension funds and insurance companies on which industry depends for long-term finance, it is not clear that the economy benefits from the process.
In other words, it is the latest initiative to provide the financial bridge that British industry has wanted for more or less as long as I have been conscious of the existence of British industry, viz long-term finance for growing companies from the institutions that invest for the long term.
The programme should acknowledge that markets are likely to remain shut to Greece and that lots of long-term official finance will be needed.
To undertake such big network upgrades, Mr Byers is proposing to adopt an idea for raising long-term private finance that was developed before Railtrack's collapse.
Dexia, which used short-term funding to finance long-term lending, found credit drying up as the euro zone debt crisis worsened.
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Nevertheless, in the medium term the firm will probably have to issue more long-term debt to finance itself (it hopes to gain an investment-grade credit rating this year) and raise more equity, perhaps by listing.
In an era when many of our largest states are drowning in long-term debt incurred to finance spending on everything from lavish public employee pensions to privately-owned stadium construction, the last thing the federal government should be doing is encouraging even more borrowing at the state and local level.
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Far too much cash is being under-spent or tied up in unwieldy long-term PFI (private finance initiative) contracts.
Such balancing acts between the need for quick cash injections and possible long-term disadvantages of private finance deals will be played out across the country.
Wise capitalists do not rush to finance long-term projects that depend on public subsidy.
It is supposed to propose solutions to a broad range of long-term care issues, including delivery, finance, and workforce matters.
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Any future system should finance high-quality long-term supports and services that are well-integrated with medical care.
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Second, new products can be innovated, such as providing long-term financing to cooperatives, addressing working capital needs, and developing on-lending schemes to finance group members.
Kerry, who sits on the Senate Finance Committee, views a long-term extension as a priority, his office says.
The report also cited the strong monthly dividend history at Fifth Street Finance Corporation, and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.
Long-term unemployment would still be for national governments to finance.
The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at Ship Finance International Ltd, and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.
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Only last autumn, the Fed had to save world finance by masterminding the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund, and cutting interest rates three times.
"We still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action, " he added.
In the past few months, important events and circumstances have highlighted the need for an effective, sustainable way to finance the often-astronomical costs of long-term care services and supports.
That is why pension funds, which have a long-term interest in a growing and prospering economy, are foolish to finance hedge funds in betting against the economy.
We believe that the long-term outperformance of low-risk portfolios is perhaps the greatest anomaly in finance.
The two long-term credit banks that later went bust (Long-Term Credit Bank and Nippon Credit Bank) were stuffed full of former finance-ministry staff.
Investors initiated long-term optimistic stances on the stock by selling put options in order to finance the purchase of call options in the January 2011 contract.
In New Jersey, for instance, the state government struggles to finance critical public works projects that are vital for long-term economic competitiveness, while at the same time public employee benefits are rising at double-digit annual rates.
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Meanwhile, governments are relying more and more on private companies to finance and build water infrastructure, in return for profitable long-term licences to run local monopolies.
With an increasingly dense network of holdings in sectors ranging from telecoms and energy to finance and cement, Greece's business world is signalling its long-term commitment to the prosperity and stability of all its neighbouring states.
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