And companies like RBS increasingly provide not only banking services but also finance in the forms of grants (through their Inspiring Enterprise programme) and loans (through their Microfinance Fund).
However, were that to happen, along with OpenTable, they'd face another well financed competitor in the form of Restorando.
These projects were financed either in the form of joint investments with foreign companies or domestic contractors or through direct investment by the NIOC.
This is because the foundation, called Life Is Art, recently began to reap a new kind of financing, in the form of tall, happy-looking marijuana plants.
The Saudis are dragging their feet on a Pakistani request for $5.9 billion-worth of finance in the form of deferred oil payments.
On average, undergraduates got 52 percent of their financing in the form of grants, 39 percent as loans, and 9 percent as tax credits or deductions or Federal Work-Study funds.
The bank provides US exporters with financing – in the form of loans, guarantees and insurance policies – to sell goods and services overseas.
To pay for $78 million in equipment, Tasty received $31 million in public financing in the form of loans from the development corporation, the city and the state.
In the last three months it has twice needed to take emergency financing in the form of expensive merchant cash advance loans.
