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A trap for small businesses
Laws are like fine nets, catching the common fish even as the biggest push their way through. Or so you might think on learning of how federal prosecutors keep nabbing small and medium-size businesspeople who violate an obscure law relating to bank...
Tags: Cato Corporation, Consumers, Manhattan (Will, Illinois), Organized Crime, Prosecution
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Md. to launch program to stimulate lending to small businesses
Maryland small businesses gripe that they can't get loans from banks. Lenders complain of a dearth of borrowers. Is there any way to get these two together? The state is going to try, under legislation expected to be signed into law today. Maryland will...Tags: Technology, Business, Bank of America Corp., Ellicott City, Business Enterprises
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Preying on the poor
Individually, the poor are not all that tempting to thieves. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you'll be lucky to get bus fare to flee the crime scene. But the poor in aggregate provide a juicy target...
Tags: Criminals, Finance, New York City, Prisons, Theft
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Identity thieves filing fake returns using data on real taxpayers
Here's another reason to file your tax returns as early as possible: an identity thief might beat you to the money.
Identity thieves are filing fake federal returns using taxpayers' Social Security numbers and claiming tax refunds worth billions of...Tags: Criminals, Interior Policy, Timonium, Theft, Internal Revenue Service
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William Francis Bender Jr., computer expert
William Francis Bender Jr., a computer and data processing executive, died Tuesday of heart failure at St. Agnes Hospital. He was 69.
Born in Baltimore, Mr. Bender lived his entire life in Catonsville.
After graduating in 1960 from Mount St. Joseph High...Tags: Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Charles Street, Mark Roman, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Maryland's new mortgage delinquencies improve
The share of Maryland homeowners newly behind on mortgage payments fell to the lowest level for March in four years — an important milestone because the state's new-delinquency figure is now better than its pre-crisis average. Just under 3...Tags: Mortgages, Norton (Norton, Virginia), Foreclosures, Financial and Business Services, Finance
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Stephanie Talbott joins Coldwell Banker's Harford office
Stephanie Talbott recently joined Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Harford County regional office sales force. She comes to Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate with more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience. "We are excited to welcome...Tags: Washington, DC, Real Estate, Harford County, Companies and Corporations
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Baltimore area home prices jump in April thanks to fewer foreclosures
The Baltimore region saw a double-digit jump in average home sale prices in April, the most in six years — but the gain was driven by a shrinking supply of cheap foreclosures rather than a resurgence in value.
Just one in 10 homes sold in the...Tags: Mortgages, Homes, Financial and Business Services, Timonium, Real Estate Sellers
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Prepaid card market heats up — and the fees are plentiful
Prepaid debit cards are everywhere these days — and so are their fees.
The cards allow you to load cash onto them and are accepted by businesses just like other types of plastic.
But you might have to pay a fee to activate the card, make ATM...Tags: Consumers, Bankrate Incorporated, Business, American Express Company, Financial and Business Services
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Consumer agency to review mandatory arbitration in financial services
Finally, a spotlight will be shone on a widespread business practice that forces unhappy customers to settle disputes through binding arbitration — rather than by telling their story in court. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now is seeking...Tags: Consumers, Financial and Business Services, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Credit and Debt, U.S. Supreme Court
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Keep limits on credit union business loans
The op-ed by State Employees Credit Union CEO Rod Staatz ("Let credit unions do their job," April 25) compels me to respond on behalf of the Maryland banking industry. In his commentary, Mr. Staatz, who runs Maryland's largest credit union, argues that...Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Business, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Small Businesses, Corporate Officers
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Volunteers teach city students business in 'nifty' program
For a decade, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship has been working in Baltimore schools to encourage students with the potential to become tomorrow's business leaders. The nonprofit's work has paid off, generating projects such as student-run banks...Tags: Donald Trump, Charles Street, Students, Teaching and Learning, PNC Financial Services Group Incorporated
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