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Airline startup Green Africa Airways, which counts former American Airlines CEO Tom Horton as a top adviser, finished up a Series A round of funding led by New York investment firm Kuramo Capital.

Nashville's largest homegrown lender and the city's newest sports franchise are teaming up.

Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. has signed on as a corporate sponsor of Nashville SC, the organizations announced Friday. The deal is Pinnacle's third sports-focused partnership, with the $23 billion lender already sponsoring the Tennessee Titans and Memphis Grizzlies.

Becoming an official sponsor of a sports team is about one thing: brand recognition. Just look at Pinnacle's deal with the Tennessee Titans:…

Greensboro-based FirstPoint Collection Resources, a division of credit-services and receivables management company FirstPoint, announced late Friday that it has acquired Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Credit Bureau Systems.

Credit Bureau Systems has 40 years of experience in debt collection and call center services. According to the announcement, the acquisition of Credit Bureau Systems will result in consolidated operations and new jobs in Greensboro. Company officials were not immediately available to…

The application was originally filed in 2016.

Collette Divitto, founder of Collettey's Cookies, and John Cronin, co-founder of John's Crazy Socks, talk about the importance of hiring people of differing abilities.

A chief concern among small-business owners for 2018 is implementation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump late last year.

The legislation represents the first major change to the U.S. tax code since 1986. Its resulting tax rates will take effect for tax years beginning this year, and there are several stages to the work that companies must complete, according to Steve Saah, executive director for Robert Half Finance & Accounting in Washington,…

In this week's Capital Gains: The latest activity on the fundraising front for Austin companies, an executive trades in conference rooms for cookie stands and Lyft gets a big boost from Southwest Airlines.

Square Inc. has withdrawn an application to open a new depository bank, but said it plans to apply later to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Last September, the payments processor and its Square Capital small business loan arm filed documents with the U.S. banking regulator to form an industrial loan concern with headquarters in Utah. Square's state application with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions is still valid, the company said.

The American Banker daily industry newspaper noticed…

A chief concern among small-business owners for 2018 is implementation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump late last year.

The legislation represents the first major change to the U.S. tax code since 1986. Its resulting tax rates will take effect for tax years beginning this year, and there are several stages to the work that companies must complete, according to Steve Saah, executive director for Robert Half Finance & Accounting in Washington,…

There’s one question many business owners often ask themselves: “What is the true value of my business?”

It’s an important question because, whether you realize it or not, the value of your business will have a big impact on both personal and professional aspects of your life. So, knowing the answer is vitally important.

A business valuation, conducted by a credentialed valuation expert, estimates the economic value of your interest in a business. It is most often used to determine the…