When German agricultural holding company Ekosem-Agrar needed to raise money to expand last year, one thing was clear – it was not going to go to the bank. “If there is one lesson we have learned from recent years it is that you should not depend on the banks,” says Wolfgang Bläsi, chief financial officer and managing director of the firm. “I don’t see very many German companies that don’t get financing primarily from the bank,” he concedes, but he warns that “in the long run it will not become easier, it will only get more difficult”.
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