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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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Expectedly, the largest economies in terms of production and consumption in SEE have a significant presence in the ranking of the oil and gas companies: Romania and Bulgaria – with six and five representatives respectively, Serbia and Slovenia – three each, Croatia –two, Macedonia - one. Interestingly, Macedonia’s sole crude oil refinery Okta AD ranked 16th with ...
EU member state Bulgaria, traditionally a strong producer and exporter of metals, had nine companies represented in the ranking of the top 20 metals enterprises. This ranking was led by Romanian steel plant Arcelor Mittal Galati with annual revenue of 2.23 billion euro in 2008, up 5.5% on the year. The ArcelorMittal steel ...
Although 2008 was a tough year for the banking sector in Southeastern Europe, as it was everywhere else around the world, four banks in the region ended last year with assets worth more than 10 billion euro each. In 2007 the same banks also had assets above the 10-billion-euro mark.
Slovenia's largest bank, Nova ...