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It’s looking like the forecast for 2020 will continue to be sunny, if perhaps not quite as bright as the past few years, according to speakers at the Idaho Business Review’s Forum on the Future, an expert forum on 2020 ...

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The Boise Centre’s bond rating has improved from an A to an A+. The Greater Boise Auditorium District, which owns the Boise Centre, was recently notified by Standard & Poor’s Rating Services that it was upgrading the Centre’s lease revenue bond rating. The rating, considered ...

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In this episode, Karen Appelgren, director of the Zions Bank Business Resource Center, breaks down all the different methods of funding for small businesses and goes over resources available to entrepreneurs. Listen on iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud as well.

Idaho banks continued their several-year string of good news with good third-quarter results. Idaho’s 10 state-based banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. earned $61 million in the first nine months of the year, an increase of 3.39% over ...

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Zions Bank recently opened two new branches, in Meridian and in Twin Falls, to provide service as the cities grow. “We’re hearing a lot from our customers that they’re not wanting to have to go to the other side of ...

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Companies are at risk of lawsuits for failing to have websites usable by blind people, and banks have faced a number of legal challenges over accessibility — a concern that still looms. Over the past couple of years, several companies ...

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As service members return from active duty, banks and other organizations are helping them reassimilate through small business programs. “They’ve given so much to our country,” said Karen Appelgren, vice president and director of the business resource center at Zions ...

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First Interstate Bank has hired a new regional president for Idaho and eastern Washington. Lorrie Asker, who started on Aug. 15, previously worked for First Foundation Bank in Irvine, California, in a regional role. A long-time Idaho resident, she has ...

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Idahoans with felony criminal records may have an easier time getting a job if a proposed bill comes to fruition. The legislation, called the Fair Chance Employment Act, doesn’t let employers include language in job ads to exclude people with ...

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A new local investment bank is aiming to “repeat an Austin or a Boulder or a Salt Lake” in Boise. Galena Capital, which started in Boise in April, is yet another type of the capital companies that seem to have ...

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