5 councilors ask bank to deny electric coop's P3M loan (Sun Star)
FIVE members of the City Council led by Councilor Asbi Edding asked the Security Bank Corporation to deny the P300 million loan application filed by the Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative (Zamcelco) on grounds of lack of necessity and lack of consultation with member-consumers.

For consumers, there's little reason to worry (Los Angeles Times)
Financial turmoil at Countrywide Financial Corp., the country's biggest mortgage lender, might have many people wondering whether their home loans are in trouble. And what about funds deposited in Countrywide's affiliated savings and loan operation, Countrywide Bank?

Bank Robbery (Scoop.co.nz)
A young male held up the Westpac Bank, Canterbury Centre, at the corner of High/ Cashel Streets at 1pm to day.

17-08-2007: Takaful Ikhlas expands ops to Saudi Arabia (The Edge Daily)
KUALA LUMPUR: Takaful Ihklas Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MNRB Holdings Bhd, has submitted an application to Bank Negara Malaysia and Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) to expand its operations to Saudi Arabia.

County commissioners discuss airport (Americus Times-Recorder)
The Sumter County Board of Commissioners voted at their agenda-setting meeting Thursday to support the Airport Authority’s bid to secure a $300,000 loan to build 20 new airplane hangars at the Souther Field Airport.

Beating the affordability blues (Ararat Advertiser)
It seems that barely a week goes by without another gloomy statistic confirming how hard it is to enter the property market. The latest analysis from the HIA and Commonwealth Bank shows that affordability for first-home buyers fell a dizzying 10.3 per cent in the 12 months to March this year.

ZABG to carry out agric training (The Herald)
THE Zimbabwe Allied Banking Group will this month carry out extensive agricultural training programmes to farmers in Manicaland and Mashonaland East provinces as part of the bank’s continued support towards the success of the agrarian reform programme.

Calyx Software Releases Point and Point Data Server Version 6.0 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----Calyx Software®, the mortgage industry's leading provider of loan marketing, originating and processing software, announced today the release of Point® and Point Data Server® versions 6.0.

CIC seeks advice from state on child care (The East Liverpool Review)
LISBON — The Columbiana County Community Improvement Corporation took no action on a loan for a Lisbon child care business, opting instead to seek the state’s take on the proposal.

Housing Bubble and Real Estate Market Tracker (Seeking Alpha via Yahoo! Finance)
A roundup of articles and data about the housing market.