What’s Your Credit Score? FICO Helps With Answers
For the average consumer, there are many mysteries surrounding credit scores. What is a FICO score? Is it really necessary to monitor this metric...
Bank Exposure on Commercial Real Estate Creeps Higher
According to a recent report in National Real Estate Investor, a “day of reckoning” may be looming for banks with too much exposure on commercial real estate loans.
Alabama Credit Union Act Fine Tuned
During the most recent Legislative session, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law an update to the state’s credit union act.
How Community Banks Balance Local Ties and New Technology
For businesses in midsized cities, community banks are still the source of wherewithal. For the bankers, it’s a balancing act between the strength of local relationships and the cost of new technology.
Global Bank Access Without Lifting a Finger
Diamond Fortress’s fingerprint ID system works on a smartphone and opens secure banking services to remote areas of the world.
How Small Businesses Can Enter the Sea of Federal Procurement
Alabama small businesses have been relatively slow to take advantage of this SBA program designed to navigate the stream of federal government contracts.
Insights in Credit Union Lending
Leading Alabama credit unions see a shift from mortgage to consumer lending, temperate reaction to rising interest rates and accelerated adoption of online loan transactions.
Service, Rebranding Mark Jackson Thornton’s Centennial Year
Jackson Thornton kicked off its “100 Years | 100 Acts of Service” to benefit Rise Against Hunger by using its 200-plus team members to pack more than 34,000 meals.
Benchmark Changes in This Year’s Fed Income Taxes
Dr. Kerry Inger, who specializes in financial accounting and corporate taxation in Auburn University’s Harbert College of Business, highlights the most significant changes of "the most significant tax reform since 1986."
Relief Donors Visit Rwandan Kids
Four employees of Warren Averett LLC, the nationally ranked accounting firm, fly to Rwanda to meet children they’re sponsoring through an international charity.