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Jim Reames has joined First Federal as senior vice president and Treasure Valley market president. Reames has 20 years of banking experience in the Treasure Valley. He has a degree in business management from Boise State University and also graduated from ...

Vacasa — which, like many vacation rental companies, was hit hard by COVID-19 — has received an additional round of funding from its investors that is intended to help it through the crisis. The company, which has headquarters both in Portland and ...

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A similarly named bank in the same geographic region turned out to be just too big a hill to climb for Alpine State Bank. Instead, the new bank, the first in Idaho in some years, will be known as Bright ...

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Ball Ventures Ahlquist and Idaho Central Credit Union liked working together on ICCU’s Eagle View Landing building so much that they decided to do it again, this time in Boise. The two companies are partnering to construct a 16-story mixed-use ...

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Angel investors still expect to keep investing in early-stage startups despite the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic but are likely to be more conservative in doing so, according to a recent survey performed by the Angel Capital Association. “There’s less investing going ...

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Bank of Idaho opened its newest permanent branch in Nampa on May 18. The branch is at 324 12th Avenue South, a building previously occupied by KeyBank. It is the company’s eighth full-service location statewide. The building is owned by ...

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It’s a bank branch. It’s an arts venue. It’s a meeting place. It’s a NeighborHub, and Columbia Bank is bringing one to downtown Boise, at 190 N. 8th St. “Columbia Bank is excited to be bringing our award-winning NeighborHub to ...

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For the accounting industry, this has been a tax season like no other in memory. Typically, the weeks leading up to April 15 are an endless succession of long hours in the office, meeting with clients, gathering tax information, filling ...

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The second round of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funding to help small businesses affected by COVID-19 economic disruption is lasting longer and appears to be doing a better job of going to the people it’s intended to help than the ...

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Dirk Stanger has joined D.L. Evans Bank as a vice president commercial loan officer for the Rigby branch. He has 13 years of financial experience and holds a bachelor’s degree in business management and finance from Brigham Young University – ...