That settlement, approved by 49 participating states' attorneys general, was one more example of a resurgent finance industry that has walked away largely unscathed from the havoc it wrought.
(The gold standard is an example of an idea which finance types know about, but some lay readers may not.
The MC Mojave case, in which elderly residents "discovered" that they were suing a homebuilder after they agreed to free home inspections, has been cited as an example of litigation finance run amok.
The west's economic sanctions are a prime example of "weaponising finance", while instruments from cyber-attacks to propaganda campaigns also represent alternatives to tanks and guns.
A good example of an international startup financed by Apax is i-Scraper.com, an Internet service for property developers run from Germany, Israel, Britain and the U.S. Another Apax-backed company is ENBA.
DOW JONES Wristwatch Attracts $7 Million From the Crowd | Pebble, a line of watches being developed with money from the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, is the latest and largest example of a new business model financed by many small contributions, The New York Times reports.
India is also an example of a country whose government finances have been helped by the oil price decline.
The Liberia Pooled Fund emerged as the strongest example of a "fit-for-purpose financing mechanism".
James Row, managing director of the Entoro Group, gives the example of a private company looking to finance a drilling program to explain the synergies that OfferBoard will bring to Entoro.
We have agreed to support the safe and sound spread of new modes of financial service delivery capable of reaching the poor and, building on the example of micro finance, will scale up the successful models of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing.
