Wheatland Bank launches wealth-management division

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, says it has added wealth management services and has hired veteran financial adviser to lead the launch of the new business line.Newly created Wheatland Wealth Management is an in-house brokerage and financial of Bank...

Mortgage delinquency rate has risen

The June Mortgage Monitor report released earlier this month by Jacksonville, Fla.-based Lender Processing Services found a nearly 10 percent spike in the national delinquency rate in a month-to-month comparison. The company's mortgage report in...

INB parent reports rise in earnings, fewer bad loans

Linn Parish

Northwest Bancorporation Inc., the Spokane-based parent of Inland Northwest Bank, has reported second-quarter net income available to common shareholders of $1 million, or 33 cents a diluted share, up from about $120,000, or 4 cents a share, in the...

'Unbanked' people might face health insurance hurdle

News Wise

A new report co-authored by Vanderbilt University health policy expert Dr. John Graves, assistant professor of preventive medicine, has found that as many as a quarter of people eligible for subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act...

Sarbanes-Oxley rule fosters gender bias, expert asserts

News Wise

In 2002, the federal government mandated that corporate boards of directors include at least one audit committee financial expert to help avert future accounting scandals. The title and description of that position, however, might have an on of...

Predicting public company bankruptcies said tougher

Business Wire

With the second-quarter corporate earnings season nearly over, new research from theStanford University Graduate School of Businessexamines the usefulness of financial statement and market data for investors who want to ascertain the likelihood 1...

Economists foresee faster improvement

American Banking Association

Although economic growth has been constrained in recent quarters, it will accelerate later this year and into 2014 as external pressures and fiscal drag ease, says the economic advisory committee of the American Bankers Association.According to...