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Car Czar Consulting says: We are providing access to strategic advice and major market funding leaders, with a concentration on automotive, media, technology and life science companies.
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Definition: The process of conducting research on the business environment within which an organization operates and on the organization itself, in order to formulate strategy. A number of tools are used in the process of strategic analysis, including SWOT analysis, other.
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Our focus is on the media, technology and life science companies.
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Obama Said to Offer Banks Capital to Lend to Small Businesses
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama is set to announce an additional round of capital injections into community banks that can make the case they’ll use the money for small business lending, according to people briefed on the matter.
Obama is expected to make the announcement this afternoon at a visit to a small business in Maryland, where he will also increase the caps for loans backed by the Small Business Administration. The White House said small banks will have “better access” to money from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Community banks will have another chance at a government capital injection if they can make the case that the money will aid small businesses, the people said. As in the past, the banks will need to show that they could survive without the additional funds, one of the people said.
Senate Democrats are pushing for more aid to small businesses to counter the perception that the administration is focusing on big banks. The announcement comes seven months after the Treasury’s March announcement of a $15 billion program to purchase pools of SBA loans, which so far has not been implemented.
“We see continued evidence that Wall Street has been stabilized, but to date it seems that Main Street continues to struggle to create new jobs,” wrote Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat on the banking committee, and 30 other lawmakers, in a letter to Obama yesterday. Co-signers include Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd of Connecticut.
Redirecting Rescue Funds
The lawmakers called on Obama to redirect bank rescue funds for community lending by creating a new program within the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. The program suggests using federal financing to anchor a $40 billion pool to support new lending, accompanied by as much as $10 billion in private investment.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said yesterday that the Treasury is now at the point where it can “wind down” its assistance to big banks and auto companies, while still continuing programs for smaller banks and small businesses. “It’s very important that we preserve as insurance, really, the capacity to make sure that we’re fixing this financial system,” Geithner said, according to a transcript of an interview with Reuters.
Terminating the Program
This means the Treasury will effectively terminate its capital purchase program, in which the government bought stakes in healthy banks, at the end of the year, an administration official said. Under current plans, there also will be no further investments through the targeted investment program, which was used to aid Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America (BAC 16.96 ↓0.29%) and New York-based Citigroup Inc. (C 4.51 ↑1.81%)
The recently started Public-Private Investment Program is expected to use the $30 billion that has been announced for it, the official said. Another program, the TALF, may see less use going forward, the official said. Current estimates are that an additional $10 billion cushion over the allocated $20 billion will be sufficient to support the continued success of the program, the official said.
Obama’s announcement today won’t dissuade Warner from pushing for further assistance to small businesses to make it easier for them to hire, aides said. “We certainly intend to continue working on this issue,” spokesman Kevin Hall said.
Concerns Raised
Banks should be required to set aside money to make small business loans if they accept the federal assistance, Warner and his colleagues wrote. The letter also raises concerns that banks could add to already strained portfolios of commercial real estate loans. In the past, the Treasury has allowed banks to use TARP funds to bolster their own capital without any conditions on lending.
“Funds should be time-limited and restricted to operating companies — not real estate development companies — which will ensure that these funds quickly reach those business owners that need it most,” the letter said.
Gene Sperling, a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, declined to say whether the administration viewed commercial real estate activity as eligible for the new round of assistance, when asked yesterday by reporters after a Senate committee hearing on small business issues.
The Obama administration is weighing policies to arrest a decline in jobs that spans 21 months and has put 7.2 million people out of work since the recession started in December 2007. To date, most of the bailout money has gone directly to companies including Bank of America Corp. and General Motors Co., and a stimulus package has yet to reverse an unemployment rate forecast to surpass 10 percent by early next year.
