British banks argue that their role as providers of long-term finance to sectors with changeable credit ratings might be compromised.
Three main factors are blamed for the likely constraints on long-term finance.
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.
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.
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.
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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First, existing models of short-term trade finance for producer groups can be replicated and scaled, while encouraging commercial banks to follow.
Traditionally, commercial banks used short-term deposits to finance relatively short-term working capital.
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.
This creates a lag between incurring costs and receiving revenues, a gap bridged by short-term trade-finance loans.
This has come as a huge relief to chief financial officers, who barely a year ago were having to make do without a fully functioning market for commercial paper (short-term loans to finance operating expenses).
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.
Far too much cash is being under-spent or tied up in unwieldy long-term PFI (private finance initiative) contracts.
Such balancing acts between the need for quick cash injections and possible long-term disadvantages of private finance deals will be played out across the country.
"We are going to be looking at other areas going forward, " he said, naming campaign finance, term limits for legislators and full-time legislative employment among the options he might explore.
In an era when many of our largest states are drowning in long-term debt incurred to finance spending on everything from lavish public employee pensions to privately-owned stadium construction, the last thing the federal government should be doing is encouraging even more borrowing at the state and local level.
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Wise capitalists do not rush to finance long-term projects that depend on public subsidy.
Deposits are still too short-term to allow banks to finance many property loans of 15 years or more, and finance is still too expensive for the mass of poor Brazilians who need it most.
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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.
The bank relies on the idea that there will be a continual stream of those short term deposits with which it can finance those much longer loans.
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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.
Dubai, which is part of the United Arab Emirates, will continue to be a major driver for Islamic finance in the near term, as it attempts to recycle the region's petroleum wealth into real estate, tourism, technology and other anchors of a truly diversified economy.
The higher growth would make it easy to finance the higher short-term deficits that non-revenue-neutral tax reform would produce.
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Sceptics note that a large chunk of the increase is accounted for by short-term bills rather than new lending to finance spending.
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It is supposed to propose solutions to a broad range of long-term care issues, including delivery, finance, and workforce matters.
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Any future system should finance high-quality long-term supports and services that are well-integrated with medical care.
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Instead, such lenders should focus on short-term, documented trade transactions and classic project finance.
Its reserves depleted, Cuba has recently been forced to finance critical imports through short-term loans at double-digit interest rates.
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