London -- London Scottish Bank filed for court protection Monday after the Financial Services Authority declared it could no longer accept deposits. The British Treasury claimed all of the bank's retail accounts would be covered. "The Chancellor (of ...
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LONDON Scottish Bank, a small specialist lender best known for providing unsecured loans through door-to-door collection, has plunged into administration, Britain's financial regulator said yesterday. However, both the Financial Services Authority ...
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The Small Business Administration is having trouble fulfilling core contracting responsibilities such as reviewing proposed acquisitions and recommending procurements that might be suitable for small business set-asides, according to a new audit ...
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BACK in October, my colleague in Los Angeles wrote , apropos of the government's puchase of a stake in Capital One: Given the importance of small and medium-sized businesses to job creation and productivity, successful efforts to loosen consumer ...
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WASHINGTON - New York City's small businesses saw a sharp drop this year in the number of loans guaranteed by the government. Reps. Anthony Weiner of Queens and Nydia Velazquez of Brooklyn released data showing a nearly 40 percent drop of loans ...
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HELENA - Nominations for the 2008 Governor's Excellence in Exporting Award are being accepted. Sponsors of that award are the Montana governor's office and the Montana District Export Council. The award recognizes companies or individuals who have ...
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A pair of bankers at a recent Securities and Exchange Commission panel on small-business capital formation said they are ready, willing, and able to lend to small businesses. The problem, they believe, is that vexed small businesses display little ...
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