Indeed, so low have borrowing costs fallen that some wags have dubbed the market "the asset class formerly known as high-yield".Until the hiatus related to the budget crisis in America, companies were rushing to take advantage of this financing opportunity.
"Longer term, additional financing opportunity exists," Morgan Stanley said.
The key is that you have to think your VC is nothing more than a financing opportunity at heart – it's the best tool that the market invented to fund startups, but it is still just a tool – they're not going to build your business for you.
"There are many financing opportunities in Mexico that are not tapped," says Agustín Carstens, the governor of the central bank.
The city also hopes to save $40 million in its capital plan, thanks to financing opportunities offered by the federal stimulus package.
And Bizdom U, an "entrepreneurial boot camp" started by Dan Gilbert, the founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, is offering graduates of its four-month-long course financing opportunities of up to $100,000 if they base their start-up in Detroit.
The study said that state-owned enterprises should be more commercially oriented, and that the government needed to improve financing opportunities for private companies and to expand the overhaul of the banking and financial sectors.
Nicholas Curtis, the executive chairman of Lynas, said in an interview on Friday that financing opportunities had improved in recent months, declining to elaborate because of a voluntary five-day suspension in its stock trading as the company reviews its options.
Even with consolidation of the banking industry, at the beginning of the early 21st century there were more than 1,000 Russian commercial banks, many of which were state-owned or were institutions that offered few financing opportunities for small- and medium-size businesses.
The phrase "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" referred to the importance of national intermediaries working with faith- and community-based groups to develop their capacities to identify and secure financing opportunities that can improve the lives and the livelihoods of our communities.
The governor's staff has been meeting daily for several weeks at the State Capitol to go over the federal bill with a fine-tooth comb to identify all financing opportunities for the state and to study time constraints, said Matthew Fritz, special assistant to the governor.
