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Training Help

Trade associations that are starting to develop and sell industry-specific basic-skills-training materials.  Read more

Network: February 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

How to Manage Your Cash Better

An introduction to cash management services available from banks for most businesses  Read more

Report: Small Business Credit Card Use Creates Jobs

Study finds significant benefits to using credit cards, including revenue growth that's spurred massive job creation.  Read more

Sign of the Times

The American Banker's Association recently added a new insurance program for banks: lender-liability coverage.  Read more

Costly Loans

New risk-based capital rules raise the price of commercial loans.  Read more

An Online Checks Primer

Accepting checks online is legal under certain circumstances. Three laws were passed allowing Internet check acceptance: the Uniform Commercial Code, Titl...  Read more

Index

How to contact companies, people, and organizations mentioned prominently in this issue.  Read more

Banks Continue to Ease Lending Standards, Fed Says

May 11, 2005 --It's starting to look a lot like 1997--as least as far as lending standards are concerned. But that alone will likely not b...  Read more

Resources: The Scoop on SBA-Guaranteed Loans

An overview of the American Bankers Association's publication, SBA Lending Made Easy, including price.  Read more

A Halloween Entrepreneur and More Credit Woes

From grease monkey to professional pumpkin carver. Just in time for Halloween, the Read more

Wal-Mart, Home Depot Come Under Fire Over Banking Plans

Small businesses will suffer if large retailers open their own banks, critics told a congressional committee.  Read more

Will Banking Go Virtual?

Inc. magazine's finance editor points out some of the pitfalls that go with electronic banking.  Read more

9 Questions to Ask a Small Business Lender

If you are looking to borrow money to finance your business, here are some smart questions to ask potential lenders.  Read more

How to Switch Banks

When your financial institution doesn't provide the services your company needs as it grows, you should consider making a change.  Read more

"check Imaging" To Cut Bank Processing Costs

A decade ago, Edwin B. Greene had an idea whose time had not yet come. Greene, a senior national marketing representative for IBM, had devised a new syste...  Read more

Tears (And Some Misplaced Jeers) As Preston Leaves The SBA

This morning, at this hour, Small Business Administration chief Steven Preston goes before the Senate Committee on Bankin...  Read more

Cashing In On Cds

Federally insured jumbo certificates of deposit have always been good investments -- they are safe, and they yield higher-than-average rates of interest. And...  Read more

Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)

The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is a collection of modernized, codified, and standardized laws that apply to all commercial transactions with the except...  Read more