Banking & Finance

Capitol Views: Centralized sales tax issue dead for this year

The House Ways and Means Committee essentially defeated legislation Monday afternoon that would have...

Financial planning advice after Trump tax law

With the first year of the Trump administration’s new tax law—the Tax Cuts and...

Women in business need to believe in themselves

With years of experience owning and operating businesses in the United States and South...

JR Ball: Louisiana voters deserve taxing truth this election

U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham and Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone—the two Republican’s vying to...

Broken trust of Stanford Group fraud still impacts Baton Rouge

Kathy Mier still remembers the feeling she got in the pit of her stomach...

Stanford Group: Baton Rouge was ‘prime hunting ground’

In the decade since the Stanford collapse, there’s been a lot of time for...
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Tighter mortgage standards has yet to impact Baton Rouge market

While the federal agency that insures mortgages for first-time homebuyers recently tightened its standards...

IberiaBank’s Ben Marmande moving to Houston; John Everett to succeed him

IberiaBank’s longtime Baton Rouge market president, Ben Marmande, is relocating to Houston, where he...

Anthem Bank relocating to Perkins Road

In an effort to expand its Baton Rouge footprint, Anthem Bank plans to relocate...

JR Ball: Big cities, like Baton Rouge, are a financial mess, too

The prospect, bluntly stated in my last column, of allowing Louisiana’s insolvent small towns...