The Russians are seeking funds from the U.S.-supported European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the project.
Take the Latin American potentate who arrived in London in the 1820s seeking funds to exploit his country's resources.
Banks, anticipating huge demands from companies seeking funds, began hoarding cash, sending the federal funds rate as high as 6%.
Competitor AIG witnessed brand erosion after seeking funds from the government, and saw its U.S. life insurance market share fall from 2% in 2008 to below 1.3% in 2010.
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For one thing, it has been reported that Koni is seeking funds from the Public Investment Corporation, which manages government employee's pensions and is entirely owned by the government.
While crowdfunding requires certain minimum disclosures, people seeking funds via crowdfunding portals will not have to adhere to the same the level of disclosure as normal businesses with a prospectus.
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Sufferers of rare diseases, startups in Africa seeking funds, instrumental-surf-music enthusiasts -- each is an example of a market that is skinny in the local market but, globally, inflates to a profitable mass. n Aggregating demand.
In order for crowdfuding to work without disastrous results, the government will have to, among other things, mandate that entrepreneurs seeking funds provide as much disclosure as possible, clearly define investor rights, and possibly commit to a specific schedule of financial reporting or business updates to ensure proper communication between the crowdfunding entities and investors.
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These results are before fees, and alternative indexes have higher fees than low-cost beta-seeking index funds.
The Obama administration is, nonetheless, seeking no funds for replacing existing weapons with designs that include modern safety features, let alone ones that are more suited to the deterrent missions of today - against states like North Korea and Iran, rather than the hardened silos of the Soviet Union.
Even without the Madoff trustee seeking to recover funds, attendance has sagged while player payroll has remained high.
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AirAsia X is not alone in seeking to raise funds through equity sales.
The congressman is drafting legislation that would strengthen disclosure and transparency requirements by foreign companies seeking to raise funds on Wall Street.
Public pension funds seeking additional taxpayer monies will be especially scrutinized.
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"The CFB will determine in the coming months which candidates seeking public matching funds for the 2013 elections have qualified for payment, considering all the information available, " a spokesman for the board said.
While admittedly pursuing different agendas, all of these groups agree on certain basic principles, among them the need for considerably more information regarding the true identities, involvements and global activities of foreign governments and firms seeking to raise funds in our stock and bond markets.
For its part, the Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to demand adequate disclosure with respect to where foreign firms seeking to raise funds in the U.S. capital markets -- to say nothing of their parent companies, subsidiaries or affiliates -- do business in the world and with whom.
It will also raise the limit for investors seeking to put yuan funds, raised overseas, in China's markets.
Amkor is not your average high-tech firm seeking an injection of funds.
The main way in which hedge funds are seeking to convince investors that they are not the creature of a single star trader is to hire top Wall Street types to run the business side.
Now many are seeking to save their pension funds instead.
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They often seem to hold in contempt participants in distressed funds that are seeking information regarding their endangered retirement assets, as well as a voice in determining how these assets are handled.
France, seeking fresh ways to raise funds and frustrated that American technology companies that dominate its digital economy are largely beyond the reach of French fiscal authorities, has proposed a new levy: an Internet tax on the collection of personal data.
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To add insult to injury, when seeking to withdraw from certain hedge funds, many investors were told they could not withdraw their monies.
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In recent years, throngs of investors have piled into emerging market exchange-traded funds, with many seeking to diversify their portfolios by investing in a broad swath of emerging market companies.
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Some big changes are happening in funds favored by safety-seeking retirement savers.
Last July, adoptions were again frozen after the arrest of Baisalov's predecessor, Ravshan Sabirov, for allegedly extorting funds from foreign adoption agencies seeking accreditation.
That's the amount of funds the federal government is seeking from New York after years of excessive reimbursement to the state for its Medicaid health care program for the poor.
By publishing their findings, the professors may unleash a flood of trades by hedge funds and other market sharks seeking to pick off the excessive profits hitherto made by CEOs on their options.
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