Day: February 11, 2013

New State Bank On The Prowl For Borrowers and Projects

Nicolas Dufourcq, the new head of the French government's Banque Publique d'Investissement, says that one of the greatest obstacles he faces is finding viable projects, not money. The state bank was created last year to help small and medium-sized companies overcome difficulties in obtaining financing from traditional sources of funding. At a lunch hosted by the bank for some twenty AAPA members…