The Federal Reserve also stepped in with massive liquidity programs designed to keep short-term financing flowing.
The IMF encouraged Egypt to apply for emergency short-term financing to stave off collapse of its crisis-stricken economy.
It allowed large companies to get cheaper short-term financing by bypassing commercial banks.
Yet at a time when rates are at historic lows, the government continues to rely on short-term financing, taking on tremendous rollover risk.
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Spanish lenders (unlike Irish banks) have sharply reduced their dependence on short-term financing from the European Central Bank, from a peak reached in July.
It is this short-term financing share that creates the potential for systemic spillovers in the form of deleveraging and marketwide fire sales of illiquid assets.
We have, in conjunction with the others, set forward some short-term financing goals that we believe internationally can be met to help some developing countries.
While online pawning continues to be a relatively new option for business customers, a growing number of small businesses are finding it to be a good way to finance their short-term financing needs.
Goldman Sachs has a long history in lower Manhattan, from Marcus Goldman providing short-term financing to the nineteenth-century rag trade on the Lower East Side to signs carried around the present occupation of a park at Broadway and Cedar Street.
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Wintrust Financial Corp. is a bank holding company that provides banking services, trust and investment services, commercial insurance premium financing, short-term accounts receivable financing, and certain administrative services.
According to the report, as of May 22, the four banks issued only 340 billion yuan in new loans, with short-term loans and bill financing remaining the dominate type.
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The award-winning Police Homeowner Loan Program offers police officers low-interest (4%), short-term (20 year) financing with no down payment for the purchase of rehabilitated houses in low-income, inner-city neighborhoods in Columbia.
He says he has to rely for financing on short-term bank loans at high interest rates instead of on longer-term bonds.
In the triparty repo market, primary dealers and other large banks and broker-dealers obtain very large amounts of secured financing from money funds and other short-term, risk-averse investors.
The fear that interest rates would spike, along with a sharp increase in the financing costs of their short-term debt caused a run for the exits, and many of these high-yield bets were hit hard.
Briefly, these programs are intended to mitigate what have been, at times, very severe strains in short-term funding markets and, by providing an additional source of financing, to allow banks and other financial institutions to deleverage in a more orderly manner.
"The bond-market investigation is not likely to have a negative impact on companies' ability to raise funds in the short term, but some high-risk borrowers, such as local-government financing vehicles, could see their borrowing costs go up, " said Zhu Chaoping, head of research at ChinaScope Financial, a Hong Kong research and data firm.
According to Mr Eyerman, he is acting in a way similar to how an independent judge would act in a Chapter 11 proceeding, giving Alstom short-term protection from creditors so that its managers can try to show that the firm is worth financing in the capital markets.
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