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.
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.
Wise capitalists do not rush to finance long-term projects that depend on public subsidy.
British banks argue that their role as providers of long-term finance to sectors with changeable credit ratings might be compromised.
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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In Bonn there has also been talk of Theo Waigel, Germany's long-serving finance minister, going to Brussels, though he is right-wing.
Three main factors are blamed for the likely constraints on long-term finance.
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.
These included Fausto Tonna, the long-time finance director who had quit in March 2003, shortly after the company surprised investors by pulling a bond issue at the last minute, and Gianpaolo Zini, Parmalat's legal counsel.
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.
Long before I studied finance formally, my mother told me a story when I was young that became imprinted on my mind, and I still enjoy retelling it today.
Indeed, finance officials long claimed that productivity gains, and steps such as better ports and transport to cut exporters' costs, would be enough to deal with the balance of payments.
But as the evolution of finance decades earlier proves, there's quite simply no way that bank failures caused the Depression given the greater truth that finance had long before evolved away from traditional banks.
Private finance projects are long term contractual arrangements between public authorities and private sector companies.
Like many finance majors, he believed in the power of the capital market and wanted to pursue finance as a long term career.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Wednesday that his country could not afford to finance itself for long at current bond rates.
If the generalities of that have long been known here, Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram stunned the country in late February when he proposed a new tax on India's top earners.
If you walk away from this exhibit with one general impression, it's this: We've long been a debtor nation, and we've long fought over how to finance and pay for that debt.
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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.
For example, it could be up to 17, 18 year period before the money comes back, and that's a very long period of time to finance, and that's a serious disadvantage of the graduate tax approach.
Since the finance ministry had long decreed that no big bank would go bust until May 2000 and had pretended that many were solvent, it is a safe bet that the men from the ministry connived with the dodgy banks that were trying to disguise their losses.
Any future system should finance high-quality long-term supports and services that are well-integrated with medical care.
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Yet Greece's public-finance problems were brewing long before the rich world's banks started to falter.
Morgan and Bankers Trust both ditched their retail branch networks long ago to focus on wholesale finance.
Far too much cash is being under-spent or tied up in unwieldy long-term PFI (private finance initiative) contracts.
Tiny companies eager for capital are beginning to sprout, and Germans, at long last, are eager to finance them.
This went down well with BofA executives, long resentful of big-city finance types who disdained the Charlotte bunch as hayseeds.
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