For them, discounted bills are a big source of financing.In its public statements since the cash crunch, the central bank has urged banks to lend more to the "real" economy and to small firms in particular.
Retained earnings are a big source of financing for corporate investment in Chile: companies may now have to rely on more borrowing, which for small firms costs up to 15% a year.
A far bigger source of finance for illiquid firms is other more liquid ones.
But Rush said the Rams have a "strong ownership group, who continue to be the single biggest source of finance".
The tax on property is the biggest source of financing for school districts in Texas, which get 52 percent of their money there, according to a recent report.
As recently as 10 days ago, Fannie Mae, the Federal National Mortgage Association, the nation's biggest source of financing for mortgages, issued a statement about predatory lending.
The European commission highlighted in a recent report that by far the biggest source of financing for development (pdf) available to global south governments is domestic revenue.
Given this, it is unclear whether the GCF will have access to much financing in the next few years, even though it is envisaged to be the world's single biggest source of financing for climate change mitigation and adaptation by 2020.
It's provoked a scandal in the Doha Film Commission, a big source of film finance.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the biggest sources of financing for American home loans, helped give the market some ballast after the government removed restrictions on the size of their portfolios, offering a chance to ease an extremely tight mortgage market.
