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WASHINGTON - Entrepreneurs make decisions about starting and closing businesses based not only on conditions in their current location, but on conditions in neighboring states. Those conditions can include bankruptcy exemptions, access to health insurance and unemployment programs, according to a new study for the SBA's Office of Advocacy. Some...

ROME, Italy - Bank like, or not bank like, maximizing profits, or maximizing service these were some of the credit union values bantered around the stage at the 2005 WOCCU Conference. Jim Blaine President of State Employees Credit Union in Raleigh N.C. and Rob Nicholls CEO of Australian National Credit...

Top 28 Credit Unions in Member Business Loans Outstanding as of March 31, 2005 for credit unions over $50 million in assets

ROME, Italy - Poland, Ireland and the United States have very different experiences with taxation issues and at the same time there is a similarity. In a presentation at the 2005 Rome WOCCU World Conference Gryegorz Bierecki, WOCCU Director and head of the National Association of Cooperative Savings and Credit...

WASHINGTON - Stephan Galvan was already very familiar with the inner workings of the U.S. Small Business Administration when President Bush recently appointed him acting deputy administrator. Galvan has been with the agency since 2004 serving in high-profile roles as chief of staff and chief operating officer. He will continue...

MADISON, Wis. - Looking at how credit unions stack up to banks when it comes to business lending, the statistics may blow the competition encroachment theory out of the water. In all 50 states, banks easily surpass credit unions in business lending in almost every category, according to data compiled...