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Get Green Guidance From Your Architect

For banks involved in building or remodeling, green may be the major reference point as they select designs and products. Kevin Carr of BRR Architects (Merriam, Kansas) is a licensed architect and interior designer. Green means different things, Carr noted. It can be anything from using sustainable products all the way to becoming LEED-certified - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Green is very broad, Carr said. He would say probably the best definition he has had to make it a ge...

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Fdic Issues Final Guidelines On Small-Dollar Loans

Fed Announces Changes for Check Operations

Fdic Provides Access to Fdicconnect Files

Nontraditional Mortgage Illustrations On Web

Banks Encouraged to Work with Storm Victims

Fed Funds Target Remains 5.25 Percent

Arkansas Governor Appoints Franks Bank Commissioner

Csbs Announces Elections, Appointments

Fed Names Madigan Division Director

Chicago Fed Promotes Four Officers

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Style Impacts Construction Projects

Typically, the president of the bank is the leader in construction projects unless it is a large system bank, which relies on facility departments for completing projects. In that situation, the president or senior management is in charge of budget approval and then works at arm's length during the project. But in Iowa, for example, most banks have no trained facility experts so construction projects fall on the shoulders of the president. There are two predominant styles: the direct leader a...

Save Green by Building Green

As everyone becomes more environmentally savvy, customers expect the financial industry to do its part, too, by adopting green practices. But with fuzzy guidelines and misinformation on what constitutes green building and how it affects ROI, many financial institutions have not leapt at the chance to go green. As design techniques advance and the benefits to building green increase, this practice deserves a second look. Building green is a comprehensive approach to design that enhances a buil...

Simple Steps for Building a 'Green' Branch

If you are contemplating building a new branch, consider that a typical commercial construction project generates as much as 2.5 pounds of solid waster per square foot of completed floor space. To determine the solid waste that your new branch is going to generate multiply your proposed square footage by 2.5. That is how much solid waste will end up in a landfill. These are just a few reasons why building green is so important. Building green is defined as the practice of increasing the effic...

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Green Light?

The consensus for 2007 was that there would be anywhere from two to five interest rate cuts, and to date there have seen zero. This illustrates very clearly how important it is to focus more on steadily improving your own bond portfolio's performance rather than trying to outguess the market. There are two simple portfolio management tools, however, that can improve your odds at being vaguely right on interest rates rather than precisely wrong. Tool number one involves using your portfolio's ...

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Subprime Lending Statement Issued

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Directors and the Duty of Confidentiality

The Hewlett-Packard board debacle may be long-remembered for adding the term pretexting - pretending to be someone else to obtain their private information - to the American lexicon. What may have been lost in the internal probes, congressional hearings and prosecutions is the frustration that many on the Hewlett-Packard board felt over leaks of information to the media. This frustration is understandable. There has been a lessening, and, in some cases, a cavalier disregard, of director decor...

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