It is the collective efforts of investors that have given rise to the crowdfunding phenomenon, and more recently, aggregation of funding sources, with two or three forming a pool of finance.
During this period of his career, Nolan had little or no success getting his projects off the ground; he later recalled the "stack of rejection letters" that greeted his early forays into making films, adding "there's a very limited pool of finance in the UK.
If there's one reason the L.S.O. has been successful, it's because everything we do is for the music and without the compromise of 'Oh, can we afford it?' " Mr. Gillinson draws a distinction between a good orchestra and a great one, critical in a city where no fewer than five full-time symphony orchestras swim in the same limited pool of financing bodies, sponsors and ticket buyers.
My friend's bank was a member of a syndicate that provided a pool of financing for Lehman's commercial paper operations.
The three companies chose Nasdaq over the Hong Kong or Shanghai stock exchanges for Nasdaq's ability to draw larger pools of financing, the companies say.
Those with relatively deep pools of financing are scouring the landscape for weak targets that they believe can give them a more dominant position in the marketplace when the dust from the present financial crisis settles.
Pooling of finances became the exception rather than the rule, with projects remaining the dominant mode of aid delivery, despite professed support by donors for more programmatic approaches [ 9, 10, 21].
Having a dwindling pool of contributors finance such benefits for a longer-living pensioner population is a recipe for disaster.
Officials here bristle at the "tax haven" label, insisting that Luxembourg attracts so much cash, most of it from foreigners, simply because the country offers political stability, honest regulators and a pool of multilingual finance professionals.
A few weeks ago, Paramount, which does not have a large pool of outside financing to help bankroll its movies, pushed back the release of Martin Scorsese's next picture, "Shutter Island," until February, citing difficulty swallowing the marketing expense in 2009 amid the DVD downturn.
Takeout is the amount that a track skims off the top of a betting pool to finance its operations.
