For small businesses, loans are plentiful as long as they’re plastic-backed

For small businesses, loans are plentiful as long as they’re plastic-backed By Paul Smalera From CNN Money FORTUNE — On Monday Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke took up the growing issue of lack of lending to small businesses by banks, and the havoc it’s causing in the economy. Lending to small businesses contracted by $40 [...]

Women’s World Banking Brings Credit To The Third World

Women’s World Banking Brings Credit To The Third World From Forbes.com Mary Ellen Iskenderian remembers the moment when she discovered her purpose in life. As a child, her parents often took her to visit her father’s family in Turkey where she saw, for the first time, people living in utter poverty. She remembers thinking, “I [...]

Financial Reform and You

Financial Reform and You By Matt Quinn From Inc.com You can be forgiven if you’re having trouble figuring out what the financial regulatory reform bill means to you. Reportedly logging in at over 2,000 pages, even if it were fully public and finalized, you’d have to take a sabbatical from work to plow through it. [...]

How to Improve Your Credit Score

How to Improve Your Credit Score Tips for understanding and repairing a poor credit rating By Karin Price Mueller From Entrepreneur.com Until your business has been around for a few years and has established a solid financial history and track record of its own, your personal credit rating will be linked to your business. “Banks and other [...]