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Business Loan: How to Decide Which Type and Sources that is Right for You.

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  Business Loan is highly competitive and Finding the right sources of funding for your business can be difficult. There are many types of funding available — investors, grants, loans, etc. — and each has its own application process and set of rules. One of the most common options for small business funding is a business loan. Small business funding sounds like it should be easy to obtain, but borrowing money may not be as straightforward as it seems. As a business owner, you need to know your options so you can tailor your application to the type of loan you’ll actually get. With that in mind, consider these seven types of business loans to figure out which one is right for you. #1 Friends and family loan Family and Friends loan remains the first step and baseline for anyone who is looking out to get an enterprise off the ground. It can also be used for cash flow or to chase growth among established businesses. As it implies, you ask your friends and family to lend you money. It’s...

Project Finance - A primer in the Renewable Energy Projects

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 Project finance has emerged as a leading way to finance large infrastructure projects that might otherwise be too expensive or speculative to be carried on a corporate balance sheet. The basic premise of project finance is that lenders loan money for the development of a project solely based on the specific project’s risks and future cash flows. As such, project finance is a method of financing in which the lenders to a project have either no recourse or only limited recourse to the parent company that develops or “sponsors” the project (the “Sponsor”). Non-recourse refers to the lenders’ inability to access the capital or assets of the Sponsor to repay the debt incurred by the special purpose entity that owns the project (the “Project Company”). In cases where project financings are limited recourse as opposed to truly non-recourse, the Sponsor’s capital. What Underpins Project Finance?   As a general (if not universal) rule, lenders will not forgo recourse to a project’s S...