It’s tough to tell when an internet phenomenon reaches actual meme status. But, in the case of the “creepy finance guy,” I think we can finally call it. This week saw yet another jaw-dropping tale of Wall Street prattishness, this time in the form of a post-date survey. Yep, a finance dude went on a [...]
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Fitch Affirms RPI Finance Trust's Ratings at 'BBB-'
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fitch Ratings has affirmed RPI Finance Trust’s (RPI FT) ratings in light of incremental bank borrowings of $500 million as follows: –Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BBB-’; –Senior secured bank loan rating at ‘BBB-’. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The ratings apply to approximately $2.73 billion of outstanding debt. Leverage to Increase Temporarily [...]
7 Types Of People Who Fail In Finance
To earn a career (or even a job offer) in finance, you needed to have sufficiently impressed your interviewers. The finance setting in the real world is competitive. Occasionally, Human Resources will let in finance professionals with über personalities. They have spark, personality and commendable accomplishments. Unfortunately, as their peer group begins to work with [...]
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. to Present at Wells Fargo Securities Specialty Finance Symposium
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire -05/17/12)- Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. (the “Company” or “ARI”) (ARI) today announced Stuart Rothstein, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, is scheduled to present at the Wells Fargo Securities Specialty Finance Symposium on May 23, 2012 at The Waldorf Astoria in New York, NY. The ARI presentation [...]
Future of Housing Finance Will Be Top Issue for Next President
WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwire -05/16/12)- The future of housing finance in the U.S. will be a key issue facing the winner of the upcoming presidential election. That’s what a panel of industry experts told several thousand Realtors® gathered at a symposium, Housing Policy in 2013: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions, during the Realtors® Midyear Legislative Meetings Trade Expo. [...]
EU finance ministers haggle over bank rules
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union finance ministers are to meet in in Brussels Tuesday to hammer out an agreement over how high banks should build their defenses against future financial shocks, with the U.K. running the risk of being isolated over who should set the height. The EU’s 27 members agree on the need to [...]
Africa Finance Corp eyeing $3 bln deals in a year
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a Lagos-based development financier, is considering potential investments worth $3 billion across sub-Saharan Africa over the next year, its chief executive said on Monday. Created in 2007 to help increase much-needed investments in the key infrastructure, transport and heavy industries sectors in Africa, AFC – 46 percent-owned by [...]
Finance panel restores $100,000 to school budget
NORTH ANDOVER — The Finance Committee voted 7-1 Thursday night to restore the nearly $100,000 Town Manager Andrew Maylor recommended paring from the school budget. Finance Committee member Thomas Dugan, noting the difference between the $38.3 million spending plan the School Committee approved in February and the $38.2 million recommended by Maylor, asked his colleagues [...]
German Finance Minister eyes growth measures for Greece
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is ready to consider additional measures to promote growth in Greece but the struggling economy must still carry out agreed reforms, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview with the Welt am Sonntag weekly on Saturday. “If the Greeks have an idea of what we could do, in addition, [...]
Oxford Finance Provides $27.5 Million Debt Financing Facility to Pacira Pharmaceuticals
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Oxford Finance LLC (“Oxford”), a specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies, today announced that it closed a $27.5 million senior secured term loan with Pacira Pharmaceuticals (“Pacira”). Proceeds of the loan are being used to refinance existing debt and for general [...]