Did you know that small businesses create two out of every three new jobs in the U.S. each year? More than half of Americans either own or work for a small business.
Expanding Your Business with a USDA Loan: How to Get Started
Growth is usually a good problem to have, right up until you hit a wall. When it maxes out your available square footage, personnel, and/or your equipment, you might need to consider a few changes.
Fifty Years of “Opa!” First Utah Bank Celebrates the Salt Lake City Greek Festival
The Salt Lake City Greek Festival is back for its 50th anniversary, and this year’s celebration is sure to be another joyful, vibrant gathering with our local Greek…
What Utah Business Owners Don’t Know About Payments Fraud
If a stranger called you on the phone and asked for your name, your business address, which bank you use, your account number, your routing number, how long you’ve banked there, and a copy of your signature…
Customer Spotlight: Kiddie Academy
What happens when a dentist and a neuroscientist go looking for childcare in Utah? When Dr. Drashti Kaneria and her husband Dr. Shardul Kaneria first moved here with their children…
Acquisition & Development Financing: One Relationship, Start to Finish
A subdivision doesn’t start with building houses. Before a single foundation gets poured, there’s a whole phase of horizontal infrastructure work that has to happen first.
Team Spotlight: Justin Delgado, Chief Lending Officer
Justin Delgado has been to a lot of grand openings in the Salt Lake Valley. Not to mention groundbreakings and plenty of site visits, too. When a company is building…
Banking Local: Why Community Banks Make the Best Neighbors
Where you bank is a choice most people make once and never revisit. You open an account, set up direct deposit, and then your bank becomes invisible, fading into a…
Business Banking Customer Spotlight: Grant Mackay Demolition Company
Harry Seffker has been CFO and Treasurer of Grant Mackay Demolition Company long enough to know that the most important relationships in business aren’t the ones you build when everything is going well.
How To Write A Business Plan
Every successful business started as a thought. Maybe it came to you in the car, the shower, or over dinner when someone said, “You should really do that.” At some point, that original idea has to become something more structured. That’s where…