Be$t investments: what some top talents are doing with their money--and watching out for in 2006.
As the New Year rings in, you may be wondering if the ringing of the market bell signals gloom or boom for your investments. To look into at the financial future, we asked some leading experts about their strategies for the coming year--and about their great investments of years...

Educate small-business clients about the Bank Secrecy Act.
Marketers should team up with their compliance officers to ensure that file bank develops an effective communications program in connection with implementation of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). This compliance program needs to be fully explained to frontline bankers and their clients, especially the small businesses that are the...

More than money: for Gold Bank's Calvin Kleinmann, "More Than Money" is more than a motto. (Trustee Profile).
As part of a $4-billion, multi-faceted holding company, the Sarasota offices of Gold Bank are in the "major leagues" of the financial services industry. But in a close-knit community like Sarasota, it's the personal touch that maintains a strong customer base, according to Calvin Kleinmann, community bank president-Sarasota. ...

Fringe financial services, inner-city banking & community-based solutions (1).
Abstract This article considers the cost of fringe financial services--including payday lenders, cheque-cashers, pawnbrokers--for individuals and an inner-city community as compared with mainstream bank services. The analysis finds that the significant costs associated with fringe banking explain a variety of community-based models that seek, in different ways,...

Entity Coverage.
Entity Plus, developed by The St. Paul Cos., was developed for corporate entities and individual directors as an insurance coverage option for privately held depository institutions, such as community banks, savings and loans, and credit unions. The coverage is for institutions with a maximum of $1 billion in assets....

PENINSULA BANK.
A community bank with large resources. Do not let the modest size and appearance of the building fool you. Peninsula Bank, with its Sarasota executive offices in a two-story building on the southeast corner of Ringling Boulevard and Pineapple Avenue, is more than your typical community bank....

MONEY TALKS.
CYBER-CAPITAL ESCALATES THE COSTS OF BANKING. What has happened to the world of Banking? Bankers are today widely reviled and they seem indifferent, if a little bemused, to the passions they have unleashed. Over the last fifteen years since deregulation of financial institutions, they have, stage by...

Student Teaching Action Plans: A Context for Expanded Inquiry in Multicultural Education.
Abstract In the 1980's, through the work of critical theorists, elements of social change were examined through action research. Using the principles of action research, this paper chronicles the development of reflective skills within the context of multicultural education during the student teaching semester. A baseline knowledge...

Profile: People's Community Bank; "our business people". (Headquarters 2003: Advertising Feature).
How many of today's banks offer that friendly, small-town banking atmosphere, where everyone from the bank tellers to the president gets to know their customers, their businesses and their community? The truth is, not many. Bigger banks operate on the basis of volume. But at People's Community Bank, personal...

Ten years of summer reading success: the eastern and central reading encouragement and development network (E.C.READ'N).
An incentive based themed reading program for children 2-11 years, organised by a committee with members drawn form the participating libraries. Over 9000 children will take part in the 2006/07 program, plus 1000 in a young adult reading program. Research has been published on the outcomes of the program....