When a bank fails somewhere across the country, its closure is good news for one new Seattle company.Roanoke Financial Group plans to capture part of the $36 billion nationwide market for failed bank assets left behind by banks when they are and

There was never a better time for Lars Knudsen to realize one of his goals: to buy a home on Lake Sammamish.The 51-year-old financial planner is taking advantage of the battered home market across the Puget Sound region. He has snapped up a a

Washington credit unions, once seemingly sheltered from the financial crisis, now are facing one of the biggest challenges to their health since they were formed in the wake of the Great Depression.As a result of a trio of problems, stemming the

Bracing themselves for at least several more months of economic misery, some community banks across the Puget Sound region are taking the unprecedented step of suspending their quarterly shareholder dividends or slashing them to several cents on to