Idaho Business Review IBR

A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. effort to redistribute the cost of failing banks is taking a bigger bite out of the bottom line of the country’s largest financial institutions, while giving a shot in the arm to many community banks. ...

A proposed amendment to a 1998 bill regulating credit unions has the credit union and banking industries at odds. Credit unions that have continued making business loans through the recession are backing S. 2231, the Small Business Lending Enhancement Act ...

Home Federal Bancorp has reported net income of $559,000, or 4 cents per diluted share, for the second quarter, compared to a net loss of $78,000, or 1 cent per share, a year earlier. Reduced operating expenses, improved loan quality ...

Time is running out for business owners to take advantage of a temporary Small Business Administration refinancing program. The 504 Loan Refinancing Program launched by the SBA in February 2011 will end Sept. 27. Idaho SBA lenders are hoping small ...

When small business owners need money, loans backed by the U.S. Small Business Administration can be an appealing option. Long terms – up to 25 years for certain loans – and low interest rates entice borrowers, while government guarantees bring ...

Sheila Spangler and her co-workers at the Idaho Women’s Business Center understand the trials of starting a business. After all, the center has gone through its own growing pains since it opened Jan. 3. “We first learned the hard way,” ...

Health insurance agents selling plans to individuals have had a year and a half to adjust to the latest hit to their incomes, a commission cut driven by federal health care reform. Making a living selling individual health plans always ...

Idaho-based commercial banks and savings institutions improved most of their key performance indicators in the first quarter from a year earlier, the state Department of Finance said in a new report. The Idaho banks are booking more loan recoveries, helped ...

Bend, Ore.-based Cascade Bancorp, which posted its first profitable quarter in years, is getting help from Idaho. “There is a lot of growth potential in Idaho, and it seems like the economy in Idaho is moving at a faster clip ...

The goals, and the dollar signs, for the Center for the Greater Good are immense: eliminating poverty in the U.S. and financing $1.5 billion in projects in three years. “This is what I like to do,” John Belluomini, the president, ...