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Bank of Idaho is continuing to live up to its name by expanding to Nampa, after expanding to Boise earlier this year. The bank has announced plans to enter the Nampa market, starting out with a loan production office (LPO) ...

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Correction: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Micron is looking at gender orientation and gender identity in its diversity goals. The company is not at this time due to difficulty in reporting. Diversity, equity ...

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After 83 years in eastern Idaho, East Idaho Credit Union will open a branch in Pocatello. The credit union originally had a field of membership of Idaho Falls postal workers but now accepts anyone who works in Bonneville or Bannock ...

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Idaho business executive Arthur “Skip” Oppenheimer recently pulled back the curtain a bit on the workings of the Federal Reserve System, an organization that he has come to know intimately for nearly four years. Oppenheimer, a former director of the ...

A new Rathdrum branch for the STCU credit union will be delayed until next year. The Liberty Lake, Washington-based credit union, which will have a total of 24 branches in eastern Washington and Idaho, had originally announced the branch in ...

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A bill that could make it easier for banks and credit unions to serve legal cannabis businesses has taken a step forward. On July 23, a Senate committee chaired by Sen. Mike Crapo held a hearing on it — though that ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Equifax will pay at least $700 million — and potentially much more — to settle lawsuits over a 2017 data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and similar sensitive information of roughly half of the U.S. population. ...

In what may be a shift in direction, Sen. Mike Crapo, chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, has indicated he might soon schedule hearings on a bill that would let bankers serve legal marijuana businesses. Crapo told ...

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Several banks and credit unions based in or serving Idaho are ranked highly on lists of the healthiest banks and credit unions and top community banks nationwide. The healthy banks list was put out by DepositAccounts.com, a Lending Tree company, ...

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As part of a nationwide streamlining expected to result in a 10% reduction in headcount, Wells Fargo Bank has merged its business and commercial banking lines in the Idaho region under one manager. “We’ve had, historically, two lines of business: ...

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