PHILADELPHIA - La National Urban League è la collaborazione con uno specialista small-business finanziario per offrire prestiti alle imprese in grado di ottenere approvato dalle banche.
Sul ponte di comando Capitale fornirà prestiti attraverso Urban League affiliati locali, a partire da Philadelphia e Los Angeles e poi in espansione in tutto il paese, è stato annunciato Mercoledì.
Il programma offre un anno di prestiti che vanno da 5.000 dollari a 100.000 dollari a tassi di interesse del 18 al 36 per cento.
Tutti i prestiti devono essere rimborsati attraverso automatico quotidiano "micro-pagamenti" dai conti del business bancario.
- The Associated Press
TD Bank was recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration's New Jersey District Office to approve loans to a New Jersey small business owners during the fiscal year of the Agency for 2009 (the period from 1 October 2008 until September 30, 2009 ). The Cherry Hill-based lender SBA approved 168 loans for 60.7 million U.S. dollars to New Jersey small business owners.
For his efforts, TD Bank (Toronto-Dominion Bank) has received SBA's Diamond Award at the annual SBA Lenders' award ceremony at the Newark Club in downtown Newark.
SBA New Jersey District Director James A. Kocsi said, "I am pleased to recognize TD Bank for their strong commitment to make capital available to New Jersey small business owners. Even during these tough economic times, TD Bank recognizes that the growth of small businesses is a vital component of our economy, and they are doing their best to meet the demand for loans by small businesses in our state. "
"During fiscal year 2009, New Jersey small business owners received SBA-backed 1116 to 338.2 million U.S. dollars loan," said Kocsi. "When President Obama signed the American recovery and Reinvestment Act into law, SBA has received the funds that enabled us to increase our warranty to 90 percent for our donors and waive fees loan for our borrowers. These improvements to our loan programs resulted in a significant increase in approved loans in the last six months of our fiscal year. "
This year, SBA has awarded two prizes of silver to the lenders approval of between 75 and 124 loans for the year. BNB Bank of Fort Lee has approved 109 loans for 51.6 million U.S. dollars and Innovative Bank of Oakland, California has approved 94 loans for 2.9 million U.S. dollars.
With a shortage of jobs emerging as an urgent priority for the White House, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is promising new efforts to help small businesses obtain loans.
All parties of the far right seemed to be in the room Wednesday where he spoke: business leaders, bankers and federal officials. But by accelerating the flow of credit and new jobs is proving very difficult, despite signs of stabilization in credit markets in recent months.
The Obama administration has walked a careful balance, pledging more efforts, while tempering expectations.
"Small businesses in particular are still facing a very challenging credit environment," Secretary Geithner said in remarks prepared for a forum for days on lending to small businesses. "This is a very difficult problem to solve. It is not something we can solve with ease."
The forum comes as the unemployment rate sits above 10 percent and, as the economy continues to lose jobs rather than create them. Although the government has moved strongly to support major banks, many banks established - the most likely to be financiers for small entrepreneurs - are in trouble. Small employers are also more reliant on loans as the main source of funding, while larger companies can tap the stock or bond markets for capital.
Geithner said the Obama administration is a transition to a new phase of crisis response - from relief operations to repair the foundations for growth.
"As we wind down the programs that help big banks, we are committed to do more to help small business access to credit they need to grow and hire new workers," he said. Otherwise, "we will not be able to create a self-sustaining recovery that is driven by private demand."
The challenge of employment is both a political and an economic imperative.
With congressional elections less than a year later, the majority of Democrats could be vulnerable if the picture of jobs fails to improve. In recent weeks, Democrats have fallen behind Republicans in a generic question-vote in Congressional poll by Gallup, for example.
For the economy, a problem is that consumer spending had not received its pre-recession pace. Companies have a lot of space to increase production using the workers and the structures that have already obtained before taking or making new investments.
Many economists expect that the nascent economic recovery take root and gain momentum in the coming year. But that can not reduce unemployment much. Economist Asha Bangalore at Northern Trust Co. in Chicago expects the unemployment rate will be a little 'more than a year from now than it is today.
Credit terms of small businesses are an important issue, but only part of the problem.
Geithner listed steps the administration is taking to help small businesses and banks that provide them with credit:
• the White House has already strengthened the Small Business Administration loan guarantees and has approved tax cuts to small businesses.
• Over 1 to $ 4 authority within the meaning of the American recovery and Reinvestment Act are going to small businesses.
• President Obama has announced a program last month to provide a low cost of capital of banks established that they are planning to expand lending to small businesses.
• Geithner said he will work to ensure that bank supervisers not "overcorrect" after a period of easy lending. Even riskier climate today for breach of a loan, it is vital that creditworthy borrowers can borrow, he said.
Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, was cautious about how you will vote on a motion to recall the great bill of health services for the debate in the Senate. But in a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning, Ms. Landrieu, President of the Committee on Small Business, has suggested that the government's action was urgent and that it was prepared to negotiate a bill - provided that the control soaring health care costs for small businesses was a higher goal.
"There are many different reasons expressed by members of Congress about why begin to engage in this debate very hard for health care," Ms. Landrieu said. "A lot of different issues we brought to the table. One of the problems that led me to this table of reform and negotiation was the desperate situation of small businesses in America.
"The unpredictable and unsustainable and soaring health care costs for small businesses in America are hurting their ability to grow, to participate in an uptick of failures, are decreasing their ability to hire people and create jobs in a when our country needs those jobs created, perhaps more than ever in the last 25 or 30 years. So until we get the right to health care for small businesses, who can not obtain the right to creation of jobs for American. It's that simple. "
Health legislation in the House and Senate approved the bill being finalized by the majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, include numerous provisions to help small businesses offer health coverage for their workers.
With much attention focused on Ms. Landrieu and two other potential Democratic holdouts, Senators Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Ms. Landrieu's speech offered a classic example of a senator exert maximum leverage to attract l ' attention to its priorities.
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