The Financial Products segment line business provides a wide range of financing alternatives to customers and dealers for Caterpillar machinery and engines, solar gas turbines as well as other equipment and marine vessels.
"I think everyone is looking to covered bonds as the potential new financing alternative for banks," says Anna Pinedo, a lawyer who specializes in capital markets at Morrison & Foerster.
Once the FCC finally approved the merger after almost a year and a half of consideration, he had two choices: to close that night or to wait for better financing alternatives than those he was offered at that moment.
The state, which once led the region in financing for alternatives to new supply -- an effort that included television commercials urging people to think about saving energy -- now spends about a third as much per capita as most states in the Northeast, including Connecticut and New Jersey, according to figures from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
Another company that sells $500 desktops for total payments of $1,800 or more is Financing Alternatives Inc., based in Chesapeake, Va.
"Financing alternatives are narrowing".
Like many on the committee, he looked to administration officials for leadership and financing for alternative sources of fuel.
Instead, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries -- the monopoly -- opened the spigots again, new reserves of fossil fuels were found, energy prices fell and financing for alternative energy research plummeted.
Fratus, whose company puts together financing for alternative energy companies including startups, said in June that "private sector companies... do not invest to be green.
He noted that Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, had proposed a similar mechanism for financing alternative energy research, but had explicitly tied it to new drilling, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
