Idaho Business Review IBR

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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A Boise brewery is using an innovative method to raise expansion funding for the third time. Boise Brewing is selling shares of stock at $2.50 each, but only to Idahoans, said Collin Rudeen, president. Rudeen calls it an IPO – ...

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After expanding to downtown Boise and downtown Nampa, Idaho Falls-based Bank of Idaho has suddenly opened a West Boise branch, as well as starting to trade its stock. The branch is located at 6981 W. Overland Road in a former ...

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Tom Van Hemelryck, region president for Washington Federal – now WaFd Bank – knew he had to change its name when he looked at the results from a focus group. Van Hemelryck recalled participants saying, ‘We didn’t know you were ...

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Sunwest Bank has moved all its back office functionality to Idaho from California and is looking for locations for new branches in downtown Boise and south Meridian. The bank, based in Irvine, entered the Idaho market in 2014 when Syringa ...

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Three Idaho investors are creating a fund to invest in regional companies, particularly ones in Idaho led by women or people of color. “We are looking for companies that do not fit the traditional bank lending or venture capital (VC) ...

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