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Large-scale economic development deals in Indian Country have typically been financed by banks, tax credit investors and outside institutions — with Native CDFIs often left on the sidelines. That may be starting to change.
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Native American Bank N.A. has been approved as an eligible lender under the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority’s Loan Participation Program, expanding access to long-term financing for tribal and rural business projects across the state.
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Tribal governments are increasingly using a once-obscure federal leasing provision known as Section 105(l) to generate hundreds of millions of dollars for health care and infrastructure projects, according to a new analysis from the Center for Indian Country Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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Native American Bank has provided a long-term loan to support expansion and refinancing initiatives for Midi Enterprises, LLC, a federal contracting and economic development company owned by the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation.
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Native communities receive a tiny fraction of philanthropic funding in the United States. For every $1,000 foundations give away, only a few dollars reach Native communities — a gap that says less about need or impact and more about how philanthropy sees Indian Country.
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The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians closed a $219 million senior secured credit package to refinance existing debt and fund construction of an on-site energy facility at its Riverside County gaming resort, according to the lead arranger.
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There was a time not long ago when capital simply did not move in Indian Country.
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Talking with Robert J. Miller is a reminder of how much of American economic history has been misremembered — or deliberately forgotten.
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Tribal governments face higher costs than state and local governments when issuing bonds in public markets, according to new research from the Center for Indian Country Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis — a structural gap that can shape how tribes finance infrastructure and enterprise development projects.
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Tallsalt Advisors has formed a majority Native-owned joint venture with Derivative Logic to provide independent interest rate hedging advisory services for tribal governments, tribal enterprises, nonprofits and institutions, the firms announced.