Tag Archives: Banking
Show Me the Money!
Unusual places to find small business funding
Getting new and growing companies financed has become difficult in today’s business environment. Economic conditions…
By Bridget McCrea
Regulators Issue Cease and Desist Order to Chicago Bank
Highland Community faulted for unsafe banking actions
Chicago-based Highland Community Bank received a cease and desist order earlier this month from federal…
By Marcia Wade Talbert
Consumer Advocates Fighting Against ‘Legal Loan Sharking’
Payday lenders face regulation, congressional scrutiny
Take a walk through any predominantly black or Latino neighborhood and the signs are unavoidable:…
By Renita Burns
Banking on Our Own
Investing in black-owned financial institutions is investing in ourselves
It’s expensive to be black in America. Recent studies and lawsuits prove we are overcharged…
By Zachary Raynell Rinkins
Federal Fund Targets Investments in Underserved Communities
Where mainstream financial institutions fail CDFIs give hope
In 1990, when Willie Murriel received a loan from Sunrise Bank to purchase the building…
By Marcia Wade Talbert
Black Banks Are Feeling the Pinch
Recession pushes profits to nine-year lows
Profits at the nation’s black owned banks last year plunged to a nine-year low, newly…
By Jeffrey McKinney
A Good Time to Break Into Banks?
Ariel Investment's Jason Tyler identifies finance stocks that are poised to rebound
Bank stocks, anyone? We can hear you shuddering. The financial services industry has easily…
By James A. Anderson
Carver Federal Savings Bank Turns 60
Bank to invest TARP capital for growth
While many large commercial banks cling to life or become engulfed by the specter of…
By Renita Burns
FDIC’s New Campaign Promotes Deposit Insurance Awareness
Initiative includes Spanish calculator, PSAs targeting blacks
Anyone who banks has seen the phrase “FDIC Insured,” but to make sure that they…
By Marcia Wade Talbert
The Cutting Edge: Money Market Accounts
Gain better rates and more savings
It was two years ago that I learned the compounding greatness of money market accounts.…
