A family farmer needs a $90,000 loan to buy the fans that cool his chicken coop. A couple needs a small-business loan to $____ sturn their home into a bed and breakfast. Another couple seeks $175,000 in capital for their growing house-cleaning business. A gym owner is hoping for a...

Texas Dow Employees Credit Union, Lake Jackson, has promoted Janice Arizmendi to vice president planning/development and human resources. In addition TDECU has named Howard Dencker CFO and vice president MIS/operations.

WASHINGTON-The Small Business Administration (SBA) appears ready to eliminate restrictions on credit union participation in 7(a) guaranteed loan programs, according to a recent report in American Banker Online. Currently, only community chartered credit unions are eligible to participate under agency policy because they serve the general public, as much as...

SALEM, Ore. - It was described as the "last step" before Oregon's credit union rule on member business loans is finalized. Pamela Leavitt, vice president of government affairs and public relations for the Credit Union Association of Oregon, and CUAO Board member Tim Wheeler, president/CEO, WASHCO Community CU, Hillsboro, Ore....