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The micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector in the country will be increasingly looking at non-traditional sources for financing needs, a business outlook survey conducted by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) revealed Read more

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Wellington lawyer and National Party candidate Stephen Franks says the coverage of the Electoral Finance Act is so wide it may unwittingly capture the play The Hollow Men.

Mr Franks has raised the issue of the play, being staged at Auckland’s Maidment Theatre, with the Electoral Commission, seeking an interpretation of whether it fits the Act’s definition of election advertising. Read more

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Steep dividend cuts and losses in their company’s home- and consumer-lending divisions didn’t seem to faze CIT Group’s investors, who were happy to bid up the stock on hopes for a future focused on the firm’s commercial finance business. Read more

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An international early warning system should be established to ensure that future credit squeezes are identified and dealt with before the effects become widespread, says Gordon Brown.

In a foreign policy speech in Boston, the Prime Minister urged America to join him in pushing for reform of the major international institutions including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Read more

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ISLAMABAD, April 18: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is willing to invest $5 billion in the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) gas pipeline and wants to support energy sector projects in Pakistan.

Talking to reporters at the end of his two-day visit on Friday, ADB’s Director-General for Central and West Asia Department Jaun M. Miranda said that although the bank was willing to finance the Tapi project, it would not finance the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project on which the United States had reservations. Read more

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Lombard Finance has been placed in receivership owing its 4400 investors $127 million, after the firm’s trustee rejected directors’ proposals to implement a moratorium.

Perpetual Trust chief executive Louise Edwards, in calling in receivers last night, said “no compelling reason” existed for the proposed moratorium.

“The interests of investors will be better served by appointing receivers to independently address the issues the company has.”

John Waller and John Fisk, of PricewaterhouseCoopers, have been named receivers.

Lombard Finance, part of the listed Lombard Group, is the 17th finance firm to get into trouble in less than two years. The money hit by finance company problems is now over $2 billion.

The receivership also applies to other subsidiaries, Lombard Asset Finance, Lombard Property Holdings and Lombard Asset Finance No 2 Lombard Group itself is unaffected.

Edwards said all payments of interest and principal to Lombard Finance debenture holders had been suspended with repayment to be announced.

By DAVID HARGREAVES - The Press

MANILA — The Philippines will explore the Canadian housing finance system in a bid to create a system for securitization of housing mortgage in the country, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Quoting a report from the Philippine Ambassador to Canada Jose Brillantes, the DFA said on Wednesday that a senior level delegation from the National Housing Mortgage Finance Corporation (NHMFC) visited Canada from March 17 to 19 and met with officials of Canada Mortgage and Housing Finance Corporation (CMHC).

The department said that the NHMFC was tapping CHMC’s expertise and experience in mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and as the leading provider of liquidity in Canada’s housing markets, a role similar to the one envisioned by NHMFC.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Finance Corporation (CMHC) is Canada’s national housing agency, and premier provider of mortgage loan, mortgage-backed securities, housing policy and programs and housing policy research. It has globally recognized expertise in housing finance, mortgage funding, capital markets policy, business development and new products, strategic planning, international housing policy and evaluation and legal and default management.

DFA Spokesperson Claro Cristobal said that during the three-day workshop-meeting, the officials of both housing agencies discussed and exchanged views on all aspects of securitization, its evolution and development, challenges, market analysis, funding, legal infrastructure, risk management, among others.

The members of the Philippine delegation came from the Department of Finance, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), National Housing Mortgage Finance Corporation (NHMFC), Home Guaranty Corporation (HGC), and Home Develoment Mutual Fund (HDMF). They included Undersecretary Jeremias N. Paul, Jr., Lucille P. Ortille, lawyer Joseph Sison, Gonzalo A. Bongolan, lawyer Romeo S. Quimbo, laywer Rene N. Carreon, Daisy S. Dulay, lawyer Daniel Q. Lacuata, Rosabella C. Jose and Virgei A. Paz.

Brillantes hosted a dinner for the delegation at the “Tahanang Rizal,” the ambassador’s Official Residence, which was also attended by embassy officers and staff. A reception in honor of the Philippine delegates was also hosted by Pierre David, Executive Director of CHMC International.

By Cynthia Balana
Philippine Daily Inquirer

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The dollar and pound remained weaker against other major currencies after a report from the International Monetary Fund slashed global economic growth forecasts, particularly for the United States and United Kingdom. Read more

Dubai-based Islamic mortgage company Amlak Finance said first quarter profit rose more than five-fold to 126 million dirhams ($34.31m). Revenue almost tripled. Revenue in the three months to March 31 was 270m dirhams, compared with 102n dirhams in the year-earlier period, the lender said, its second-biggest quarterly profit ever. Read more

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The Central Bank (CBN) has said it expects the new Micro Credit Fund (MCF) to increase to N100 billion in two years. The MCF replaces the Small and Medium Industries Equity Investment Scheme (SMIEIS) designed to direct the flow of bank funds to small and medium-scale enterprises.
ImageThe fund which began operation with the N37.5 billion SMIEIS fund, has a micro credit component which supports activities of small and micro enterprises through interventions of government at all levels.

It also involves activities of the micro finance banks in providing cheap finance to the small and micro entrepreneurs.The Guidelines on the MCF stated that MCF would serve as an interim scheme for only three years.

It said the scheme would be phased out as soon as legal and institutional infrastructure for effective administration of credit to small and micro enterprises improved.

“In the first instance, this programme shall be applicable for three years, 2008, 2009 and 2010.“The tenor of the loan accessed by each state shall be as agreed with the bank but shall not exceed one year in the first instance, with the possibility of a roll-over yearly, thereafter,” the guidelines said.
The CBN said for a state to access the fund, it had to deposit a counterpart fund from the bank from which it is obtaining the fund.

It must also set up a monitoring mechanism to ensure efficient utilisation of the fund as well as to sign an irrevocable Standing Payment Order (ISPO) in favour of participating bank.It said a state could access the fund on a yearly basis provided it met its obligations under the fund.

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