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MONTREAL - Transat A.T. Inc. says it has gained some financial flexibility by extending the termination date of its $250-million short-term loan facilit...

SPARK Microsystems Announces CDN$17.5 Million Financing Montreal, Canada, February 16, 2021 – SPARK Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company leading the way in ultra-low power, ultra-low latency wireless communications, announces the closing of a CDN$17.5 million equity financing to accelerate commercialization. Led by Cycle Capital, the round included new investors ND Capital (a Silicon Valley and Europe-based venture capital firm dedicated to disruptive technologies) and Export Develo...

Friday, February 19, 2021 The purchase agreement between an aircraft manufacturer and its customer will call for the customer to pay installments of the purchase price between the time the agreement is entered into and the delivery of the aircraft. These installments are called progress payments or predelivery payments ("PDPs") and can be significant, especially in regard to a fleet purchase over many years. Normally the aircaft buyer pays the PDPs with its own funds. It may finance t...

SPARK Microsystems, the five year-old Canadian UWB specialist, has raised CDN$17.5 million in a funding round in which Sanjay Jha and Paul Jacobs participa

Wednesday February 17, 2021 By David McDonald, Professor, Global Development, and Thomas Marois, Senior Research Fellow Patient Finance and Banking, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL Public banks around the world are working towards the public good during COVID-19. The Canada Infrastructure Bank, however, seems focused on privatizing critical public services instead of ensuring vital infrastructure across the country is built or maintained. (Unsplash/ C Dustin) Most Canadians co...

COVID-19 illustrates why Canada needs more — and better — public banks The Conversation 2021-02-16 David McDonald, Professor, Global Development, Queens University, Ontario and Thomas Marois, Senior Research Fellow Patient Finance and Banking, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL © THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan Public banks around the world are working towards the public good during COVID-19. The Canada Infrastructure Bank, however, seems focused on priv...

Most Canadians could be forgiven for not knowing what a public bank is. We do have some — the Alberta Treasury Branch , the Business Development Bank , the Export Development Canada and the Canada Infrastructure Bank — but they are relatively low profile and have narrow mandates.

Montreal fabless semiconductor startup SPARK Microsystems has raised a $17.5 million equity financing round to bring its wireless transceiver tech to market.

Project will pave the way for the Ottawa firm’s customers to deliver high-speed internet to the farthest reaches of the globe.

The company has announced that it has successfully closed US$75 million of Series D equity financing, the largest private investment into point source carbon capture globally to date.