Jun 17, 2013

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Bank Earnings Seen Buffeted by Rates Rising Without More Growth
San Francisco Chronicle
Home-equity loans, credit card rates and working capital lines of credit to businesses are among bank assets pegged to short-term borrowing costs such as the prime rate, Fed funds rate or the London interbank offered rate, known as Libor, said KBW's ...
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FSB: Osborne must capitalise on increased business confidence
MyFinances.co.uk
John Allan, National Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, said: "After five consecutive quarters of year-on-year growth, confidence is moving in the right direction. Small firms want to employ more people and grow their business. They want to ...
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Gold loan companies set to lose sheen in FY14
Business Standard
Anyone who has invested in shares of gold finance companies would know it's very lucrative. An investment of Rs 1,000 in the public issue of Manappuram Finance in 2002 would be worth Rs 90,000 now. The sharp increase in the prices of the yellow metal ...
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Governor Shumlin Signs Bill to Help Improve Energy Efficiency for Homes and ...
LoanSafe
(Source: Governor Peter Shumlin) – Gov. Peter Shumlin today signed into law three bills that will improve access to energy efficiency and clean energy for Vermonters. The legislative package will provide new financing options through VEDA and the ...
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An increasing number of small businesses in London are tapping development ...
Sarnia Observer
Loans from the Business Development Bank of Canada to London businesses have jumped 20% this year compared with 2012, said Mary Ann Wenzler-Wiebe, vice-president of financing for the bank in Southwestern Ontario. Across Southwestern Ontario ...
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Italian bakery in Boca Raton gets $75000 loan from Whole Foods
Sun-Sentinel
It all started more than six years ago when Giovanna Cimino began sharing her home-baked biscottis with co-workers at Whole Foods Market in Boca Raton. Cimino, now co-owner of an Italian bakery, was at Whole Foods again this week — accepting a ...
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Mo. bill lets banks compete with payday lenders
Businessweek
But some consumer groups have raised concern that there is little difference between going to a bank to get a cash-advance loan on an upcoming paycheck and turning to a storefront business that advertises quick cash. "They are short-term, very high ...
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Pacific Continental Bank Honored with SBA Lending All-Star Award
Sacramento Bee
The bank was recognized as part of the SBA Portland District's Small Business Week awards, which honored lenders that guaranteed at least $10 million in loans and/or 20 loans in the 2012 fiscal year. In acknowledging the award, Pacific Continental's ...
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Credit unions: an ethical solution to lending crisis?
PublicServiceEurope.com
Since the financial crisis, bank lending to low-income people and small business in the United Kingdom has been dangerously poor. Thousands of people have been forced to turn to the extortionate high-interest loans of payday lenders to access enough ...
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'Burdensome' regulation stopping credit unions take on payday lenders
Evening Standard
... of entering into business with larger corporations from the individual credit union, which is in a far better position to understand its own financial institutions". Credit unions are mutual financial co-operatives that take deposits and give loans ...
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Eight questions the Co-operative Bank needs to answer
The Guardian
But who were these loans to? Small investors who have lost half the money in their PIBS (permanent interest bearing shares) rightly want to know where their money has gone. Defunct shopping centres? Collapsed property developers? Co-op Bank has ...
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Feds opening disaster loan center in Grand Rapids for area flood victims
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
The U.S. Small Business Administration said last week it would offer loans to uninsured homeowners and businesses affected by record April flooding in West Michigan. A Disaster Loan Outreach Center is scheduled to open at 8 a.m. Tuesday to assist ...
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Richard Clark, of Bath-based Jones Lang LaSalle: New rules surrounding ...
South West Business
UK banks must now comply with a new slotting regime when risk assessing commercial property loans as stipulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) earlier this year, sending a clear message that current models are considered inadequate. In an ...
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Feds offer low-interest flood loans
WOOD-TV
Report. Published on Jun 17, 2013. The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering low-interest disaster loans to individuals or businesses impacted by the April flooding in Allegan, Barry, Ionia, Kent, Muskegon, Newaygo and Ottawa counties.
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Business growth fund available
Ashbourne News Telegraph
"By offering commercial rate loans, the fund will be accessible to an even wider range of businesses who need additional funds to develop their day to day operations, expand the business and up-skill their work force. "The DEGF panel meets flexibly on ...
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Mentor development agency to grant loan to Cleveland Plumbling Supplyntor ...
Plain Dealer
MENTOR, Ohio -- Mentor Economic Assistance Corporation, a nonprofit development agency, expects to close a $394,000 small business loan to Cleveland Plumbing Supply Company for the purchase of the former Clark Dodge site on Mentor Road.
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Nevada State Development Corp. seeks CREED Act's passage
Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Nevada State Development Corp. is asking Congress to bring back a popular small-business loan refinance program that expired shortly before the 2012 presidential election. The proposal, known as the Commercial Real Estate and Economic ...
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SBA flood loan applications deadline July 9
MyWebTimes.com
An Ottawa official is reminding local home and business owners affected by recent severe storms that applications for federal flood disaster assistance loans are due within three weeks. In a news release, Ottawa Building Official and Flood Plain ...
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Indian investment fuelled by foreign loans
sourcingfocus.com
A recent series of takeovers by Indian firms of foreign businesses has been fuelled by the availability of cheap loans from international banks. Low levels of inflation on loans from banks have allowed Indian business to pursue a model of rapid ...
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Inside Business: Rising rates carry different risks for US banks
Financial Times
"Something that I worry about is that a lot of businesses have got used to a very low interest rate environment and built a business model around that," the loan officer added. Such talk by the giants is self-interested, perhaps. But the differences ...
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Equity Loans Ranked as One of the Nation's Top Mortgage Lenders
Business Wire (press release)
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Equity Loans LLC, a leader in the residential mortgage industry whose operations extend to more than 30 states, is proud to be named a Scotsman Guide 2012 Top Mortgage Lender, ranking as one of the leading lenders in the ...
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New Discover Home Loans Tool Educates Consumers about Mortgage Options
Business Wire (press release)
RIVERWOODS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Discover Home Loans has taken the confusion out of finding the correct loan option with its new Mortgage Finder tool, an interactive educational resource for consumers to find the right home loan for their needs and ...
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Quicken Loans Is America's No. 1 IT Workplace — Again
CBS Local
An example of the culture of innovation that is encouraged at Quicken Loans is 'Bullet Time,' a weekly four-hour period in which Quicken Loans technology team members can work on any personal project they want, even those outside the core business.
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Huntington Auto-Lending Unit Enters Connecticut
American Banker (subscription)
"We stayed in the auto-lending business through the downturn in the industry, and when some of the manufacturers filed for bankruptcy, the thing we did not do was run from the dealers," Porrello said. "So as business improved, it gave us the ...
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The Tale of Two Markets
Huffington Post (blog)
The broader point worth mentioning, and why a blanket statement on small business lending activity is full of holes, is that the profile of the small businesses the banks lend to is just a slice of the overall small business marketplace. The companies ...
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Little scope for loans turning cheaper
Calcutta Telegraph
Mumbai, June 17: Finance minister P. Chidambaram could face resistance from bankers when he tries to nudge them at a meeting scheduled later this month to cut their lending rates. The lenders have ruled out further rate cuts after the Reserve Bank of ...
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At small-business boot camp: counsel, technical advice
Lehigh Valley Business
The Community First Fund – a private, independent, nonprofit community development foundation – is associated with the program, and it uses the classes as an opportunity to inform small-business owners about its low-interest loans. The fund offers ...
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Sam's Club Supports Small Business in Southern California
Wall Street Journal (press release)
Last year the Sam's Club Giving Program pledged more than 2 million dollars focused directly on micro-lending for small businesses, as well as programs aimed at women-owned and Latino-owned businesses. These grants allowed: -- 3,600 small business ...
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Bruce Berkowitz Bets Big On Housing in America
Jewish Business News
By 2008 the mortgage business blew up in everyone's face, all the problem loans by then had been shuffled off onto the balance sheet of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Government had to step in to nationalize both companies at a cost of around $189 ...
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Vietnam Says Asset Company Will Start Operations in Mid-July
Businessweek
"Banks must do two parallel duties: resolve bad debts and prevent existing loans from becoming bad ones," according to a statement on the government's website, citing central bank Governor Nguyen Van Binh at the mid-year review with the nation's ...
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CBDC Westmorland Albert celebrates 26 years
Sackville Tribune Post
Karen Robinson, executive director of CBDC Westmorland Albert, said that last year alone, either through business loans or through the self-employment benefits program, the local CBDC helped 109 small businesses create or maintain 149 jobs in the ...
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Michelin Star Gives Way to $10 Meal in Ulster Slump: UK Credit
Businessweek (blog)
A year after Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne introduced the Funding for Lending Scheme designed to boost the flow of credit to households and businesses, loans from the 40 participating banks fell 300 million pounds in the first quarter ...
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Cheap foreign loans spur India's outbound M&A march
Moneycontrol.com
Foreign currency loans from India dropped to $17.3 billion in 2012 from $24.1 billion a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters LPC data. The volume is at $5.4 billion so far this year, excluding the loan for the Apollo-Cooper deal. The strong ...
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Deadline for Florida Private Non-Profit Organizations to Apply for SBA ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
ATLANTA, June 17, 2013 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Small Business Administration reminds Private Non-Profit Organizations (PNPs) in Florida that July 16 is the deadline to submit Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications. These loans are ...
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Secured loans more likely to be agreed than Remos
Mortgage Introducer
When analysing its own business over the past six months, SML's data shows that over 67% of its DIPs for secured loans were approved nationwide, including Scotland. SML said the evidence demonstrates that the secured loan route offers a greater chance ...
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Small Business Credit Health Improving In 2013
Watch List News (press release)
The credit health of U.S. small businesses has improved thus far in 2013, according Direct Capital, a leading provider of working capital loans, equipment financing and franchise financing. Direct Capital's internal data shows that the average credit ...
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Romanian bank BCR contracts EUR 80 mln EBRD loan to finance local SMEs
Romania-Insider.com
Corporate loans will be available in both Euro and USD. BCR aims to support local businesses still suffering in the wake of the global financial crisis. According to the bank, now that Romania is showing signs of economic recovery it is important that ...
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Home Finance of America Maintains A+ Rating from Better Business Bureau for ...
PR Web (press release)
All calls to Home Finance of America immediately receive live assistance during business hours, no recordings. All of Home Finance of America's loan officers are fully licensed and educated in state lending laws through the Nationwide Mortgage ...
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EUGENE, Ore., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Continental Corporation (Nasdaq: PCBK), the bank holding company for Pacific Continental Bank, tod.
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M&T Bank : Small Business Loans Funding Growing Daycare in ...
M&T is consistently the leading small business lender throughout the Philadelphia SBA District, which includes 40 counties in Eastern Pennsylvania.
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Each of our vendors is a small business on its own and we help them build and grow ... Purpose of loan, Due to our quick growth we are quickly outgrowing our ...
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Discover how your business credit scores can factor into bank loan decisions, in this free interview with Ed Harycki, CEO of SwiftCapital.
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Business & Agriculture Loans - Citizens Bank of Kansas
Business Loans. Let us show you how we can help your business grow. Businesses come in all shapes and sizes, and so do our business loans. Whether ...
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Hard To Get Small Business Loans, Survey Says - TheStreet
Nearly half of small businesses say it's still hard to get loans and credit, survey says.
www.thestreet.com/.../hard-to-get-small-business-loans-survey...


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