To find out, I talked to Bailey Klinger, CEO of the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL), which has designed a proprietary psychometric loan application that predicts the business performance and credit worthiness of entrepreneurs based on their attitudes and beliefs, intelligence, business skills, and character.
Their performance through the credit crisis suggests they have served their clients well.
Yet another example of a company taking a calculated risk to set its brand apart is Cadillac which is suggesting that seekers of high performance cars give credit where credit is due.
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In the first two quarters of this year, the company reported better than expected results primarily because of higher revenues and lower provisions for loan losses resulting from an improved credit performance.
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Better credit performance has meant that impairment (bad loan) charges have continued to fall with continued low interest rates enabling the majority of customers to pay their mortgages and even reduce their credit exposures.
The other requirement for steady performance is that the credit markets remain open, enabling high-yield companies to roll over maturing debt.
Brazilian consumer credit non-performance rates (NPRs) ticked up in March to 7.6% after having fallen to 7.4% in February.
F1 teams battle from race to race to make minor adjustments which often have a big impact on performance, and Alonso gave credit to Ferrari's technicians for improving the cars.
The company deserves credit for this performance.
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Credit Suisse released its performance figures for the last three months of 2012 last Thursday, and there were some notable updates.
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There is another reason, too, why Malaysia's capital controls deserve little credit for its economic performance: they were applied so narrowly and imposed so belatedly that they have had little effect.
Policy makers have already tried improving the performance of the rating agencies with the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006.
For the University of Wisconsin Credit Union, giving up performance reviews didn't work.
If one tightened his criteria slightly and excluded countries with negative credit outlooks, the freedom performance premium would have been even greater.
Target posted third quarter earnings before the bell on Wednesday beating top and bottom line expectations as sales were solid and the credit card unit improved its performance.
They take some credit for an improved Republican performance by Mitt Romney among Jews, but say it won't be enough to win the White House unless the GOP can find a way to appeal to larger minority groups.
Most recently, the Credit Suisse Research Institute analyzed the performance of 2, 400 companies over the past six years.
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While Twilight is another film with multiple stars, I gave each of them credit for the fantastic box office performance of Breaking Dawn Part 2, the final film in the Twilight series.
An October 2012 Fast Company article reported on a July 2012 Credit Suisse study that tracked the performance of businesses worldwide since 2005 and found that companies with at least one woman on the board outperform companies with all-male boards by 26 percent.
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It has established ground rules for extending credit to help it manage credit risk, and closely monitors the performance of its loan portfolio.
However, they apply to performance in the previous fiscal year, when the credit crunch and pain it would inflicted on Wall Street was still unimaginable.
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Sageworks, a financial information company, collects and analyzes data on the performance of privately held companies and provides the Business Credit Report by Sageworks.
The suit says that the notes were marketed as a synthetic CDO that was tied to the performance of major companies and sovereign nations with high credit ratings.
"This has been a disappointing year overall, primarily due to the negative impact of the Fingerhut credit problem on Federated's earnings performance, " said CEO James Zimmerman in a statement.
As a result of this deterioration in loan performance, investors have increased their scrutiny of the credit quality of securitized mortgages, and lenders in turn are evidently tightening the terms and standards applied in the subprime mortgage market.
Yet, judging by DaimlerChrysler's performance since the merger, Mr Eaton may deserve more credit for strategic insight than he has had.
All credit to Ben Stiller, who gives the best performance of his career.
Their high credit scores and the strength of the loans' performance during the most recent downturn may have helped investors gain more confidence in the debt as an alternative haven.
Sun and co-authors Lu Zheng of UC Irvine and Ashley Wang of the Federal Reserve studied the returns of some 5, 000 hedge funds from 1994 to 2011, adjusting for the funds' stock and bond exposure, currency bets, credit spreads and other factors that could account for performance.
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