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Paul Sarbanes, the former Democratic Senate Banking Committee chairman from Maryland and co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, will keynote the World Council of Credit Unions' 2008 World Credit Union Conference. This year's event takes place in Hong Kong July 13-16.

WASHINGTON -- More than 125,000 entrepreneurs interested in starting or expanding a business have used the Small Business Administration's newest online assessment resources.

Patelco Credit Union and Mission SF Federal Credit Union (formerly Mission Area Federal Credit Union) have teamed up to open a new shared branch.

Mobile communications is booming.

President George W. Bush has nominated Carol Dillon Kissal to serve as inspector general for the Small Business Administration.

An examination of credit union data from last year reveals that in the face of growing problems in the nation's credit markets, credit union card portfolios continued arcing upward in 2007 even as the market for those portfolios showed the sharpest decline in six years.