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The Fear of All Sums To restore investor trust, many companies are disclosing more information, according to a CFO survey. But it may not be enough.   |
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Andrew Osterland |
Commercial Paper Chase If banks have to come clean about their off-balance-sheet leverage, get ready to pay more for money. |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Randy Myers |
Anxiety's Price New regulations call into question the value of off-balance-sheet financing, if only because of their impact on bankers' fees. |
CFO
November 1, 2003
Ronald Fink |
Where Credit Is Due A new study of the largest issuers of corporate debt shows that recent gains in creditworthiness are more fragile than you think. |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Julia Homer |
Nor a Lender Be The message to those who have little choice but to finance customers in this environment is: Proceed with caution. |
CFO
March 1, 2008
Karen M. Kroll |
Pedaling As Fast As They Can Companies will now need to work harder for credit, as banks' markedly different posture on lending money is affecting businesses of all stripes -- not just those in default. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
David Henry |
Corporate America's New Achilles' Heel America is no longer a nation of manufacturers. But it isn't quite a health-care or even a tech economy, either. Instead, America is quietly and quickly becoming a nation of financiers. This puts profits at risk with changing interest rates. |
CFO
November 1, 2007
Vincent Ryan |
Debt in Disguise The boundaries between receivables securitizations and loans are blurring. |
CFO
August 1, 2004
Ronald Fink |
Too Much Cash Many companies remain cautious about using their cash, even as it continues to pile up. When will they finally start spending it? |
CFO
October 1, 2007
Avital Louria Hahn |
Only the Strong Shall Thrive Financially sound companies find gold in credit mayhem even as weaker players fear the game is up. |
OCC Bulletin
April 4, 2001 |
Leveraged Financing Guidance for bankers and examiners that more fully describes supervisory expectations regarding sound practices for leveraged financing activities. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Should GE Be Broken Up? Is GE Capital weighing down its parent? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Keller et al. |
The Bottom Line Weaknesses in public and private sector balance sheets could be the sign of a crisis in the making. |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
David Henry |
Fuzzy Numbers Despite the reforms, corporate profits can be as distorted and confusing as ever. Here's how the game is played. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Tim Reason |
Reporting: See-Through Finance The market's distaste for complex financing could raise your company's cost of capital, even if you comply with new reporting rules. |
CFO
October 1, 2008
Avital Louria Hahn |
Back to the Drawing Board Burned by complex deals, investment banks show a new appreciation for simplicity. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 14, 2004
Ann Cullen |
The Big Money for Big Projects An interview with Harvard Business School Professor Benjamin Esty. He studies the financing of some of the largest projects in the world: the Eurotunnel, Hong Kong Disneyland, and the Airbus A380, to name three. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005 |
An Unconventional Approach In this excerpt from Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment, author David Swensen describes the many risks facing corporate bond investors. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Chester Dawson |
The Global 1000 Despite a gloomy world economy, many of the companies in our annual ranking turned in smart gains |
CFO
June 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Securitization: False Security? Corporate insolvencies are testing whether securitization of illiquid corporate assets (such as receivables) is a stable structure or a flimsy facade. The legal standing of such transactions is unclear. |
CFO
October 1, 2009
Vincent Ryan |
Back on Track It's been a frightening year for credit-starved companies. Can they relax a little now? |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Eric Uhlfelder |
Making the Grade Think you're safe buying an investment grade bond for your client? Guess again. Rating downgrades are coming at a record pace. |
Salon.com
February 20, 2002
Dave Lindorff |
Chief fudge-the-books officer Enron CFO Andrew Fastow wasn't a renegade, he was just doing his job -- or, at least, he was doing precisely what today's CFOs are being told to do... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Suhas Ketkar & Dilip Ratha |
Securitization of Future Flow Receivables: A Useful Tool for Developing Countries During financial crises, developing countries cannot obtain low-cost, long-term loans. Securitization of future flow receivables can help investment-grade public and private sector entities in these countries raise funds in international capital markets... |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Lehman Brothers and the Age of Stupidity Next Tuesday, Sept. 15, marks one year since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. One year later, we ask: What's changed? |
CIO
January 1, 2001
Ian Springsteel |
Money Talk - Financial Glossary Fluency in CFO-speak can help your company---and your career. |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2004
Mark Mahorney |
Boeing Finance Sale Bodes Well Boeing's refocus on commercial aircraft lending indicates future sales expectations. |
CFO
Tim Reason |
Pump Up the Volume Companies are pouring more information than ever into their annual reports. Will investors be satisfied? |
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2003
Kathleen Fitzpatrick |
Mezz Debt Is a Magnet for Borrowers and Lenders The combination of historically low interest rates and tighter underwriting standards on senior loans has made mezzanine debt highly attractive to borrowers. But with lenders tripping over each other to woo customers, returns are shrinking. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2004
Bill Mann |
General Electric Issues Equity?! When debt financing is the next best thing to free money, GE dilutes shareholders instead. In a surprise offering, General Electric announced on Monday that it was pricing 119 million shares of its stock at $31.83 to raise $3.8 billion for the company's planned takeover of some Vivendi assets. |
U.S. Banker
February 2010
Kathy Brister |
GE Capital Thinks Small After suffering staggering commercial real estate losses, GE s financing unit shifts its focus to small businesses. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jul/Aug 2003 |
Ready for the Re Lender restraint helps keep markets stable. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Nov/Dec 2006
Gary Mozer |
Greater Access Collateralized debt obligations offer small commercial investors financing options. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Sep/Oct 2005
Andrew Stewart |
7 Real Estate Finance Myths Unveiled Discover the market factors that really are influencing today's real estate transactions. |
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Nov/Dec 2008
James Kirkpatrick |
Financial Survival Learn how to stay afloat in the commercial real estate market as terror strikes the credit market. |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
The Real Threat to the U.S. Economy While big companies grab the headlines, small businesses need credit they can't get. |
CFO
October 1, 2011
Randy Myers |
Getting There from Here As more U.S. companies expand overseas, new sources of capital are opening up. |
CFO
November 1, 2008
Vincent Ryan |
Rethinking Capital To weather the credit crisis and a recession, CFOs will have to unlearn much of what they thought they knew about capital structures. |
The Motley Fool
June 25, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Will GE Be the Biggest Loser of Financial Reform? High stakes for this non-bank financial. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Neil Gregory & Stoyan Tenev |
The Financing of Private Enterprise in China A 1999 survey of more than 600 private Chinese enterprises revealed that they relied primarily on self-financing. For China's private sector to thrive, firms will need increased access to external loan and equity financing... |
FDIC FYI
September 17, 2003
Susan Burhouse |
Evaluating the Consumer Lending Revolution Consumer balance sheets have become stretched by large amounts of new consumer and mortgage debt. This rapid increase in consumer spending and borrowing raises important questions about the sustainability of current debt loads and the vulnerability of the consumer sector to economic shocks. |
The Motley Fool
October 24, 2011
Sean Williams |
There's More to GE's Earnings Than Meets the Eye Wall Street didn't like the earnings report, but one analyst sure did. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
CIT Lives, but What's Left for Shareholders? Bondholders come first. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2009 |
Financing Links to articles about various aspects of financing for real estate. |
The Motley Fool
January 8, 2007
Emil Lee |
Understanding a Bank's Liabilities When investing with a bank, always make sure to take a glance at the sources of funds footnote. A bank's financing sources are key to its success. |
Finance & Development
September 8, 2008
Andreas Jobst |
Back to Basics What is securitization? |
CFO
July 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
In the Catbird Seat Private investors are starting to put their mountains of cash to work. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2005 |
Capital Structure, Explained When evaluating a company's merits as a possible investment, you should examine the components of its value and explore how it finances its workings. It's all about cash, debt, and equity. |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
Mara Der Hovanesian |
Going From Staid To Supercharged? New CEO Peek is running CIT Group more like a Wall Street firm. He aims to diversify the business and smooth out earnings by selling more services -- such as advice on how to buy or sell businesses -- to existing clients. |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2011
G. David Frye |
Borders' Gift From GE: Some Assembly Required Borders Group received a small package from General Electric's GE Capital arm last week -- a $550 million loan commitment to stave off creditors and possibly avoid bankruptcy. |
