Investors hoping to recoup a larger portion of the money they had tied up in Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. and Summit Securities Inc. before those affiliated companies here shut down 11 years ago have received some encouraging news.
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Spokane Federal Credit Union began in 1956 with just a few hundred dollars and only seven employees who also served as its first members. Today, it has approximately 11,500 members, and about $137 million in assets.
A U.S. Small Business Administration financing program is helping businesses expand and better position themselves for the economic turnaround, and Ted Schinzel, the SBA's Spokane branch administrator, says more businesses here could benefit from SBA 50
New mortgage rate and fee disclosure requirements set to go into effect this fall are meant to help borrowers understand the terms of their home loans before they sign their mortgage contracts, but the rules also likely will slow the process or lead to de
Hart Capital Management Inc.'s Inland Northwest Composite, which tracks the aggregate market value of 11 publicly traded companies in the region, fell by $736.5 million, or 8.8 percent, in the second quarter, to $7.64 billion, the company says.
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Double Eagle Pawn district manager Brian Wegner believes he's in an industry that is in demand regardless of the economic times around him.
Larry Carlson, the owner of Axel's Pawnshop, agrees.
'People always need to borrow money, both in good tim
Northwest Bancorporation Inc., the Spokane-based parent of Inland Northwest Bank, has agreed to acquire Fairfield Financial Holdings Corp., which owns Bank of Fairfield, in a transaction valued at about $20.75 million.
Based in Fairfield, Wash., a smal
Laurie Roth has a wide range of business experience, but most of her career has centered on a narrow field of finance: U.S. Small Business Administration lending.