Leases no longer to be treated as operating expenses? They would be reported as capital leases and moved onto corporate balance sheets as offsetting financial liabilities and right-to-use space assets? CoreNet Global’s Strategy and Portfolio Planning (SPP) Community, the specter of new global lease accounting standards has been more like trying to find the right [...]

Small-business lending is not a large part of the credit union industry, which has focused on consumer services like debit cards and car loans.  Collectively, credit unions hold about $40 billion in business loans – less than 6 percent of all small-business loans, according to the Credit Union National Association.  But the total is growing. [...]

High Point-based Bank of North Carolina (NASDAQ: BNCN) says it expects to wrap up its acquisition of Durham-basedKeySource Commercial Bank in the second quarter.  BNC, with nearly $2.5 billion in total assets, announced the $12 million stock deal in December, explaining it wanted a bigger presence in the Triangle. And in its recent annual report filed with [...]

Diversity across the board — in equity, investments and business lines — offers protection during an economic downturn.  And sometimes the best opportunities can be found in a company’s own backyard.  Those were some of the lessons shared by a panel of real estate executives Tuesday who discussed how their companies not only survived, but [...]