WASHINGTON-The Senate Finance Committee last week approved legislation to expand Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) by voice vote. The next stop for the Charity, Aid, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act (S. 1924), which substituted the language in the House bill (H.R. 7) will move to the next step in the legislative...

SEATTLE - First Immigrant's Funding knew from the get go that it wanted to expand from offering just mortgage products to the immigrant communities in the city, to opening a financial that would provide them a wider array of services. In July, the mortgage lending company will celebrate the opening...

Watched any movies in Beta format lately? Didn't think so. Back when Beta and VHS were battling it out, few people chose Beta - leaving VHS the ultimate survivor. (At least until the advent of DVD, but that's another story.) What killed Beta wasn't inferior technology; in fact, most engineers...

WASHINGTON-Banks and thrifts have increased their services in some areas, but cut back in others, while at the same time boosting fees on some account and lowering others, according to the latest Federal Reserve Board Annual Report to the Congress on Retail Fees and Services of Depository Institutions. Congressman John...