Blog articles about business and investment in USA, Canada and Latin America.
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The fund will invest in small business loans in UK, US and Europe.
Peer-to-peer lending platform Funding Circle has become the first business in the sector to launch an investment trust, raising its full target of £150 million in equity from investors.
The Funding Circle SME Income trust, which entered trading today, will operate from ...
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The long, dark shadow of the Mexican Peso crisis cast itself over the emerging market universe in 1995 like some sinister ghoul, frightening away investors and sending many of the dedicated managers scurrying into the distant, unfamiliar corners of the investment world: Africa, the Middle East and Russia.
For some, however, the crisis in Mexico ...
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One of Merar's long-term objectives is to keep it's members and blog readers updated about new interesting and useful readings, relevant both to the entrepreneurs and the investment community. This for example is a report from IHS Global Insight, produced provided to Merar several days ago by the National Venture Capital Association of ...
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Research findings confirm that Merar is strategically positioned to offer attractive opportunities to investors. In stark contrast to the gloomy sentiment of western VC firms, investors in the rapidly growing emerging economies of Asia and Latin America are markedly optimistic about their markets, according to the 2010 Global Venture Capital Survey of Deloitte and NVCA ...
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Doing business in emerging markets is no longer just an option. It is a must, given the lackluster expectations of western VC firms about growth in their home markets. Merar, with its emerging-market focus, is serving this wave of investor interest that will keep washing around the world in the coming decades.
The 2010 Global ...
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Please find below a recent market report by Ernst & Young on the media and entertainment landscape in the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The report provides an overview of the latest indicators of market attractiveness, as well as the opportunities, challenges and critical success factors in conducting business in these four countries ...