Authorities search for Lincoln Park bank robber
An unidentified man robbed a Lincoln Park bank late this morning Chicago police said.The robbery took place at a North Community Bank branch 2335 N. Clark St. about 11:40 a.m. said Officer John Mirabelli a police spokesman. No one was hurt. The man entered the bank handed a teller a note i ...

Islamic ETF in the U.S. sukuk data from 2009Q2
One of the areas of Islamic finance in the United States that has remained relatively stagnant in terms of developing new products and the entrance of new companies is Islamic investing. However with the launch of the first Islamic ETF in the US this is changing. The new ETF is the Dow Jones Is ...


FDIC’s PE Balancing Act: Damping Risk-Taking vs. Scaring Away Buyers
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is walking a fine line in devising guidelines for private-equity investments in failed banks. It wants to ensure that these largely unregulated firms don’t take too many risks with troubled banks but it also doesn’t want to scare them away from bidding on ...

FDIC: Want to buy a bank? Anyone…Anyone?
Earlier today Deal Journal wrote about the importance of the FDIC's delicate dance in coming up with new guidelines for private-equity investors seeking to acquire failed banks.The issue is important because the FDIC is looking to private equity to step up and bid for the many failed banks the ...

"Service Above Self" and Other Good Things Happening in Dunwoody
So I'm returning library books one Saturday morning recently--that one that was so warm after weeks of cold--and I see a group of people working away in the little island across the street on Chamblee Dunwoody by the library. I go over and get to talking and it's Mimi Bounds (pictured) Fred Bou ...