Bank lends homeless a hand.
SOUTHBRIDGE - Southbridge Savings Bank has lent its financial support to Ed's Place, a 30-acre working farm in Oakham operated by the South Middlesex Opportunity Council's People In Peril shelter in Worcester. SMOC is dedicated to the mobilization and utilization of resources, both public and private, to...

Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco 2005 Affordable Housing Advisory Council Annual Report.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Institution: Federal Home loan Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco The objective of the report was to show the institution's contribution in its own backyard, through the quarter-century evolution of the International Hotel in San Francisco. Through interviews, photographs and a historical timeline,...

News In Brief.
Peso closed at P53.14 The peso closed at P53.14 to the US dollar last Wednesday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines. The weighted average rate stands at P53.222. Financial markets are closed today, being a holiday. Food chain fined...

BPI named most outstanding PFI of DBP.
Byline: FIL C. SIONIL The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) bested all other banks and has been named as the most outstanding participating financial institution (PFI) by the Development Bank of the Philippines. In a simple ceremony late Friday night in Makati, DBP Chair...

A DIFFICULT PASSAGE.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard Weir McDonald, founder of the large Eugene-based food and beverage distributor that bears his name, was devoted to his company to the very end. Even as a centenarian, he went into work for a few hours every day. ...

Bank management, 6th ed.
0324289278 Bank management, 6th ed. Koch, Timothy W. and S. Scott MacDonald. South-Western College Pub. 2006 562 pages $132.95 Hardcover HG1615 In this sixth edition of a text for upper division...

Rebranding? It's easy. Getting it to stick is hard.
Once you rebrand your bank, how do you keep the change fresh over the long haul? That was the question faced a few years back by the Federal Home Loan Bank Seattle. In 1999, Norman B. Rice, a former mayor of Seattle, was hired as the president...

BUSINESS GIVING.
Byline: The Register-Guard Donations The Community Alliance of Lane County has been awarded $10,000 from the Ralph L. Smith Foundation for operating expenses. Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene has received $12,244 from the American Dairy Queen Corporation for the Children's Miracle Network...

ABA School of Bank Marketing the class of 2003.
Below is an alphabetical list of 2003 graduates of the ABA School of Bank Marketing and Management. Pam Armour, marketing officer, BancorpSouth, Tupelo, Miss.; Tino K. Arvanetes, retail sales coordinator, Community Bank Group, New Berlin, Wisc.; Tiffany C. Averett, communications officer, Nevada State Bank, Las Vegas; Rob...

Banks often offer more refinancing options than CMBS lenders.
During the past few months, I've been busy refinancing real-estate and have done all of it through banks, passing on commercial mortgage-backed security loan opportunities. Why? There are advantages to hotel borrowers of investigating the first mortgage financing options available through local and regional banks. Here are...