Recent government reports revealed that 40 percent of all small business lending is made by financial institutions $1 billion or less in size, according to the Times of Northwest Indiana. What's more, companies that sought commercial loans from a community bank...
Cash flow management can seem intimidating for small business owners. As Inc. magazine explains, the process of managing cash flow involves collecting payments, controlling disbursements, forecasting cash needs and more. In addition to entrepreneurs themselves, it...
According to a recent CNBC article by Louis Hernandez, Jr., community-based financial institutions are best equipped to help small enterprises begin to recover from the recession. Hernandez, author of the upcoming book “Saving the American Dream: Main...
The problem with retirement savings is that there’s no way to know exactly how much you must put away. As Entrepreneur magazine notes, experts in the financial services industry typically advise that those looking to maintain their current lifestyle will need at...