Baltimore Sun - The Fed’s decision means that commercial banks’ prime interest rates - for certain credit cards, home equity lines of credit and other loans - should stay at 8.25 percent. Before the Fed’s yearlong interest-rate pause, borrowers had endured two years Read More
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Extra Bilingual Community Newspaper - Do you own your home? If so, it’s likely to be your greatest single asset. Unfortunately, if you agree to a loan that’s based on the equity you have in your home, you may be putting your most valuable asset at risk. Homeowners-particularly elderly Read More
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Age - that in the final days of its protracted auction, the tide of cheap and easy credit that had been fuelling the private equity the previous decade, according to Standard & Poor’s — but some allowed the firms to pay interest in the form of more loan […]

Syracuse Post-Standard - He was arrested June 1 by New Windsor police after he returned to the United States from Colombia. The Tartaglias stumbled upon the sale only because they tried to take out a home-equity loan to cover about $20,000 worth of bad checks their son had Read More
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You only give me your funny paperEconomist, UK - 16 hours agoNow it is the norm for banks to provide bridge loans or equity to finance part of the deal. Through bridge equity, Blackstone was able to swallow Equity …American Capital Commits $100 Million to Oceana Media Finance Earthtimes.orgall 3 news articles
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MSN MoneyCentral - The Company invests primarily in middle-market companies in the form of senior and junior secured and unsecured debt securities and loans, each of which may include an equity component, and by making direct preferred, common and other equity Read More
Financial Times - In particular, investors are rebelling against […]

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For Buyout BoomWall Street Journal - 17 hours ago… postponed plans to sell the loans. That left underwriters of US Foodservice, which is being acquired for $7.2 billion by private-equity firms Kohlberg …Debt markets: Big threat to the buyout boom CNNMoney.comCracks in the buyout boom CNNMoney.comall 8 news articles
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Marketwatch - Cox said the SEC’s enforcement division has formed a working group and is “actively on the lookout for possible securities fraud.” Last week, Cox revealed in an interview that the SEC was looking into the problems at the two Bear hedge funds. Bear Read More
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Forbes - offering consists of four types of financing, all of which are secured by the rights and cash flows of the film, including: pre-production bridge loans, mezzanine gap loans, print and advertising (P&A) financing and, to a lesser extent, equity Read More
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Union Bank Launches Green Loan ProgramEnvironmental Leader, CO - 10 hours agoIn addition, the discount interest rate applies to home equity fixed-rate loans to consumers purchasing energy-efficient upgrades for their homes. …
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Asian structured loansFinancial Times, UK - 14 hours agoThese are usually structured as loans with equity upside – typically, offering discounted shares at initial public offerings […]