"I was turned down by every financing entity in the movie business."

Film producers prepare and then supervise the making of a film before presenting the product to a financing entity or a film distributor.

Of course, Mr. Milken's company, Drexel Burnham, was also the preferred financing entity for the casino industry.

The Universal Credit Corporation was a financing entity for Ford cars that existed in the US in the 1930s.

Life settlement investors are known as financing entities because they are providing the capital or financing for life settlement transactions (the purchase of a life insurance policy).

Salomon Brothers acted as lead manager for an offering of $542 million worth of securities backed by auto loan receipts from a financing entity of the Chrysler Corporation.

One of the major forces behind the development of new community-based medical offices is the Primary Care Development Corporation, a nonprofit financing entity formed with city assistance five years ago.

These awards, made available through the Recovery Act, will support loan funds, credit unions, banks, venture capital firms and other financing entities in serving our nation's most underserved populations and communities.

A dry lease is a leasing arrangement whereby an aircraft financing entity, such as GECAS and ILFC (lessor), provides an aircraft without insurance, crew, ground staff, supporting equipment, maintenance, etc.

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are nongovernmental financing entities (such as banks and loan funds) with the primary mission of community development, serving a target market, providing development services, and remaining accountable to their communities.

Empire State Development (ESD) is the umbrella organization for New York's two principal economic development financing entities: the New York State Urban Development Corporation and the Job Development Authority.

Mr. Whitesell of Endeavor, in a phone interview, said he believed that the information-sharing tack taken by Media Rights would persuade other agencies to embrace its projects, though he suspected that some might foster similar financing entities rather than signing on.

Broadly speaking, a CDFI is defined as a financial institution that: has a primary mission of community development, serves a target market, is a financing entity, provides development services, remains accountable to its community, and is a non-governmental entity.