By the time this piece is published, it shall have been about a month since Michael Lewis went on 60 Minutes to flog his latest Wall Street-oriented book. This one is called 'Flash Boys.” The boys, in this case, are those who oversee and administer th

Northwest Bancorporation Inc., the Spokane-based parent company of Inland Northwest Bank, has reported first-quarter net income of $588,000, up from $436,000 in the year-earlier period. The company reported earnings per diluted share of 14 cents for th

McAdams Wright Ragen Inc., a prominent Seattle-based financial services company that opened a branch office in Spokane two years ago, says it has signed a definitive agreement to merge with Baird, an international employee-owned conglomerate with more tha

SNAP Financial Access has launched a Women's Business Center here that's intended to be a resource for female business owners or women who want to start a business, says Laurie Roth, manager of the center. The center opened earlier this month in the

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, has posted net margins of $3.8 million for 2013, up from $2.1 million in 2012. Also, as it had indicated previously, the cooperative implemented a 4.5 percent rate increase as of the begi

Hart Capital Management Inc., a Spokane-based investment firm, says the stock value of 14 publicly traded Inland Northwest companies, as measured in an overall index it compiles, rose 0.5 percent percent in the first quarter of 2014, lagging behind the St

Umpqua Holdings Corp., of Portland, announced this morning that it has received all regulatory approvals for its proposed acquisition of Spokane-based Sterling Financial Corp., the parent company of Sterling Bank. The regulatory nod follows the previou

While the financial-planning sector is chock-full of rules of thumb and industry-accepted guidelines, developing a charitable-giving strategy is one area with too many variables for a legitimate broad-brushed approach to work, experts say. Veteran fina