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By Michelle A. Samaad |
November 6, 2011
When it comes to the barriers that tend to prevent a credit union’s business services program from thriving, a lack of knowledge from staff appears to be ranked the highest.
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By Michelle A. Samaad |
August 17, 2011
When looking at delinquencies, credit unions still have some of the lowest rates even among the worst performing business lending portfolios.
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By Michelle A. Samaad |
August 10, 2011
PORTLAND, Ore. — When a loan officer was arrested and charged with participating in a business loan kickback scheme that ultimately led to AEA Federal Credit Union’s conservatorship in December 2010, the cooperative’s outcome looked bleak.
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By Michelle A. Samaad |
August 10, 2011
PORTLAND, Ore. — When the business lending slump was at its peak a few years ago, entrepreneurs who were working with Redwood Credit Union and Orange County’s Credit Union were likely immune to the collapse.
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By Michelle A. Samaad |
August 10, 2011
PORTLAND, Ore. — During a recent afternoon session on working with government agency loan programs, as two speakers acknowledged that there can be a corn maze of forms, deadlines and updates, someone in the back of the room felt compelled to interrupt.
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By Michelle A. Samaad |
August 8, 2011
How do credit unions know how well their business deposit programs are doing? To offer a gauge, CU Business Group LLC’s new Business Deposit Benchmarking Survey collected data from 41 credit unions in asset sizes ranging from $100 million to $4.5 billion.
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By Michelle A. Samaad |
August 4, 2011
Looking at even the worst-performing member business lending portfolios, credit unions still have low delinquency rates.
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By Michelle A. Samaad |
August 1, 2011
PORTLAND, Ore. — CU Business Group LLC President/CEO Larry Middleman said banks and credit unions may have different approaches with problem loans.
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By Michelle A. Samaad |
October 6, 2010
As the birth of a new corporate credit union model emerges, the CUSOs owned by the three corporates that were recently placed
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By Michelle A. Samaad |
October 6, 2010
Did the credit union industry do enough to persuade legislators to include an amendment that would have raised the member business lending cap in a newly signed $30 billion small business lending law?