News report: Rubicon Minerals Corp shares plunge as miner slashes its gold resources by 88% One of the rules one must have is to never be critical of another industry player when one of...
Depending on your news source, this is either a rosy or horrible time to raise new debt for your mid-large sized company. The publicly-traded high yield debt market has taken a pasting this summer,...
Don’t do as I do, do as you’re told. If you are a Canadian lender, you might be forgiven for thinking there are two rule books. For the regulated banks, such as BMO, Canadian...
Talk about great timing! BDC has reported its best financial results in history, just as MPs are about to consider renewing the Crown Corp.’s mandate. I have just started to pour through the 2011...
Dateline: Boston I happened across a blog post by Sarah Tavel of Bessemer Venture Partners, and it pretty much outlined why the U.S. venture market has responded so well to Wellington’s non-amortizing venture debt...
As we spread the good word in the U.S.A. about Wellington Financial, I’ve come to appreciate just how differently various venture debt firms approach the same deal opportunity. CFOs try to find similiar threads...
Although we receive dozens of research pieces each day, it is always hard to guess which items might be of interest to our readers. As the economy continues to strengthen, the Goldman Sachs Leveraged...
The world of venture capital and private equity is all-too-often consumed by a focus on exits. But as a test of the economy, I believe they are a clear gauge of confidence and comfort...
The trend in weak Canadian commercial bank lending continues (see prior post “Bank business lending down for 5th consecutive month” June 30-09). I’m a week late with June’s figures, but the excitement around Nortel...
According to this morning’s New York Times, lender CIT Group (CIT:NYSE) will not be granted access to the FDIC’s debt issuance guarantee program. This takes me by surprise, as the murmurs coming out of...
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