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Key Factors in Evaluating the Risk of Lending to Small Businesses

By Peter Westerman

It's no secret that over the last three years, small business credit risk has increased at a distressing rate.

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August 24, 2010

Ex-REALTORS FCU Chief Glatt Walks Away From Sedona Home

Former Continental Federal Credit Union president/CEO Tom Glatt Sr. voluntarily surrendered the keys to a 4,000-square-foot Sedona, Ariz., desert estate and in the process walked out on a nearly $1 million mortgage loan from his former employer.

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August 24, 2010

Change in the Wind Reveals Which Business Deposits Are Primed for Growth

While Sound Credit Union's business services program has been in place since July 2007, a litany of bank mergers and closures in the area has helped propel its business deposit portfolio over the last year.

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August 22, 2010

CUNA Urges Obama to Push for Raising MBL Cap

The next time President Obama discusses ways to stimulate business lending he would "provide a critical boost" to credit unions by urging a raise in the cap on member business lending.

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August 18, 2010

Women Becoming Growing Investment Workshop Subjects

While there is no hard data on the number of persons attending credit union-sponsored investment education workshops, women are becoming a powerful group to woo.

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August 18, 2010

Latest New London Security FCU Suit Adds NCUA

Five persons who filed a lawsuit against board members and staff of the liquidated New London Security Federal Credit Union are now going after the NCUA to recoup losses stemming from alleged investment fraud.

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August 18, 2010