Last year, consumer debt in the United States grew to record levels, passing $8 trillion according to the Federal Reserve Board.
One valley company sees a multibillion dollar opportunity as consumers may be unaware of cost and tax benefits on some debt, and increasingly rely on financial advisers for help.
FinancialCircuit Inc., a Campbell-based financial software company, says it
New software targets number crunchers
Sarbanes-Oxley highlights risk management
Banking consultant examines the repercussions of last year’s far-reaching accounting law
As each week goes by, one of the newest federal laws affecting business continues to raise questions.
Born from the accounting scandals of 2001, Congress passed the far-reaching Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) of 2002 in an attempt to regulate public companies and clean up messy accounting practices of the late 1990s.
In the true entrepreneurial spirit of the Silicon Valley, a
Startup muscles into online ticketing market
Sometimes great things spring from humble origins.
Vendi Software Inc., which is operated out of a home office in Belmont, aims to crack the online ticketing market with its Web site, www.vendini.com.
That’s a market Wall Street analysts estimate is worth more than $10 billion annually in U.S. sales and is dominated by Ticketmaster, a unit of e-commerce powerhouse USA Interactive of New York, which had $4 billion in
Wells Fargo lures Garretty from sabbatical
After two years building up City National Bank’s Palo Alto private banking division as senior vice president and manager, prominent Silicon Valley private banker Jeanette Garretty is leaving.
After almost 25 years in banking, Garretty was convinced to cancel a long-planned sabbatical to join Wells Fargo & Co.’s Private Client Services banking unit in Palo Alto with an offer she says she couldn’t refuse. She will serve as a senior relationship
