Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Stockholm, Sweden (AHN) – Electrolux has agreed to buy a majority stake in Olympic Group, the largest home appliance manufacturer in the Middle East and North Africa. The Swedish manufacturer said Monday it would acquire 52 percent of the company from Paradise Capital for about 45.30 Egyptian pounds ($7.95) [...]

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor Pittsburgh, PA, United States (AHN) – Six out of 10 small business owners across the country plan to increase capital spending but delay hiring. The posturing is a defensive move that reflects their lingering concerns about the U.S. economy, according to the latest PNC Economic Outlook survey. The [...]

Tough rules that require investment banks to hold additional capital against risky assets will hit lending to smaller companies by making it more expensive to securitise loans, bankers and analysts warn View full post on All Stories

The active management of credit risk has been receiving increasing regulator attention and strategic focus at many financial institutions. Regulators cite poor credit risk management at the portfolio level, weak credit standards for borrowers and counterparties, and insufficient attention to changes in economic and other circumstances affecting the capacity of borrowers and counterparties as the [...]

Taking its cue from big bank endorsement of Wal-Mart’s “Supplier Alliance Program”, Charter Capital (a specialized provider of Factoring Services) has positioned itself to fund advances to an even wider range of suppliers challenged by the need to extend ever more generous payment terms to their customers like Wal-Mart, Costco and others. Due to the [...]

By exploring what went wrong with commercial lenders and small business financing, business owners will be better prepared to avoid serious future problems with their working capital financing and commercial real estate financing. This is not a hypothetical issue for most commercial borrowers, particularly if they need help with determining practical small business finance choices [...]

ORIGIN OF MERCHANT BANKING  Merchant banks, now so called, are in fact the original “banks”. These were invented in the middle Ages by Italian grain merchants. As the Lombardy merchants and bankers grew in stature on the back of the Lombard plains cereal crops many of the displaced Jews who had fled persecution in Spain [...]

Financial System It is an institutional framework existing in a country to enable financial transactions.  There are three main parts in Indian financial system. They are as follows: lFinancial assets comprises of loans, deposits, bonds, equities, etc. lFinancial institutions such as banks, mutual funds, insurance companies, etc. lFinancial markets include money market, capital market, forex [...]