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Minimizing Credit Risk

Credit risk comes in three forms: counterparty risk, credit spread risk, and downgrade risk. Most people understand the first, but the other two can be critical in some situations.
Securitization: Understanding the Risks and Rewards

Securitization, or the pooling of a class of assets such as mortgages, and selling them on to third party investors, who buy the asset to enjoy the revenue stream, is a massive business.
Understanding and Accessing Private Equity for Small and Medium Enterprises

Private equity can be a vital source of funding for SMEs, not least because unlike banks, PE investors are prepared to share the entrepreneurial risks involved in the business.
Understanding the True Cost of Issuing Convertible Debt and Other Equity-Linked Financing

Sometimes regarded as an uncomfortable hybrid sitting between the equity and the fixed income markets, convertible securities offer flexibility and access to cheap finance.
Raising Capital by Issuing Bonds

This article outlines how companies can raise finance through a bond issue.

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Public Private Partnerships: A Vehicle of Excellence for the Next Wave of Infrastructure Development in the GCC

Markab Advisory, on behalf of the Qatar Financial Centre Authority

The past decade has seen Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries laying the foundation for achieving economic diversification away from the oil and gas sectors. The next ten years will test their ability to realize this aspiration by successfully building on this foundation. Economic diversification entails not only developing new physical infrastructure, but also building skills and capacity, as well as creating new clusters and ecosystems. Public–private partnerships (PPP) can play a key role in realizing this goal of policy planners in the GCC region.

Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are. We’re all certainly responsible for what we do, but failing doesn’t make us bad people and succeeding doesn’t make us omniscient.
Howard Tullman (1946–), US multimedia entrepreneur
Source: You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business (Barry J. Moltz, 2003), Preface

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