The Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, spoke of Spanish institutions that could not raise finance.
Rates fell this week, and high-quality issuers were able to raise finance in municipal-bond markets.
Previously, it had to raise finance for expansion one project at a time, a costly, time-consuming process.
One company hoping to raise finance is Loco2, who have developed a website where customers can buy rail tickets from around Europe.
But it must also raise finance, either private or public, for its grand infrastructure plans, made more urgent by hosting the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016.
If the British government can raise finance at a nominal rate of 2%, and a real rate of zero, surely it makes sense for it to finance these projects directly?
To repeat the important mantra, when it is hard and expensive for banks to raise finance, the flow of vital credit to the economy can be interrupted and the price of credit can rise - and a weak economic recovery, of the sort we are experiencing, can be snuffed out.
The effect on Slovak industry is serious, because companies can no longer raise equity finance.
No firm would find it easy to raise new finance, however good its prospects.
Higher share prices make it cheap for firms to raise equity finance and so they invest more.
This put the business under severe cash flow pressures and the directors were unable to raise new finance.
Rising share prices also made it cheaper for firms to raise equity finance, so fuelling a surge in investment.
Implicit state support was no doubt helpful, but this did not amount to a bail-out: Satyam had to raise bridge finance on its own from private-sector banks.
With founders often unable to raise more finance at a higher valuation than the previous round, many have chosen instead to stretch their existing cash by economizing.
They have benefited from the rush to issue gilts by Her Majesty's government as they seek to raise the finance to pay the bill for the bank bailout.
These consortia, which would have the clout to raise debt finance at low rates, would assume the risk of cost overruns and the responsibility for finishing projects on time.
For Alrosa, which is desperately short of investment, the three-year deal means that the company may be able to return to world markets to try and raise additional finance.
Heads of departments at the best universities, such as Toulouse 1, Grenoble 1 or Paris-Dauphine, waste time bending the rules to lure the professors and students they want, or to raise private finance.
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There is another benefit for companies that buy back shares: they are likely to be able to raise equity finance later more cheaply, say Matthew Billett and Hui Xue from the University of Iowa.
Analysts at Moody's, a rating agency, fret that many more loans may go bad this year and next as unemployment weighs on countries such as Spain and that many banks will struggle to raise new finance as existing loans fall due.
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The group, called the Inspiration Mars Foundation, hopes to raise funds to finance the mission.
Foreign-investment rules need to be loosened to raise standards in finance, higher education and infrastructure.
As yuan funds become more common in London, European companies could find it easier to raise yuan to finance their Chinese operations.
When credit is tight in a recession, even profitable firms can find it harder to raise money to finance restructuring or new investment.
They could also help raise capital to finance conversion costs.
Now Mr Byers's immediate tasks are to devise a new railways structure that serves passengers better and to ensure that the railways can still raise the private finance that his plans envisaged.
But the campaign foundered when the Maloofs couldn't raise sufficient cash to finance their end of the deal, creating an opening for Seattle, where another coalition of businessmen was ready to step in.
However, a planned extension of the line to Cuiaba may be delayed, because the devaluation has made finance harder to raise.
And so we need to raise taxes so we can finance it.
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With barely enough cash in its coffers to pay pensions and public-sector salaries at the end of August, the finance ministry may raise short-term funds by selling extra treasury bills to the banks, squeezing cash-strapped local companies even harder.
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