As part of a new FBI initiative, FICO's online fraud alert forum will host discussions on bank robbery investigations.
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A new report suggests that the economic upturn either hasn't produced jobs that would offer employer-based insurance or coverage gains associated with new jobs have been offset by coverage losses at other companies.
The estate planning life insurance firm has hired Jon Christie to lead its first Minneapolis office, which is located in the IDS Center.
A former vice president and branch manager of a Minnesota bank admitted to stealing $80,000 and faces up to 10 years in prison.
Start-up Knowmad creates customized, off-the-beaten-path journeys through South America.
The story of a pugnacious, working-class kid from Detroit who long ago made TCF a household name, but is reinventing it again today.
The state's entire forecast balance is already allocated under state law, which requires $5 million to go toward rebuilding state reserves and the remainder to pay off debt.
General Mills has bought Food Should Taste Good, a maker of natural snack foods, including tortilla chips made in flavors ranging from sweet potato to chocolate.
The two firms said in a statement that they decided to "amicably discontinue merger discussions, because they could not come to an agreement on key terms."
UnitedHealthcare has agreed to acquire two Florida based companies-deals that will add about 85,000 Medicare Advantage members and 12,200 Medicaid members from across Florida to the company's fold, along with eight primary care centers in the state.
The grant comes at a time when an important deadline is looming; by January 1, 2013, each state must demonstrate that its own health insurance exchange will work.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said that banking conditions in Minnesota have improved in the past year and will continue to gain strength in 2012, but the state's banks still have a long way to go to get back to the profitability they saw before the financial crisis.
Fargo-based State Bank & Trust plans to open its first Twin Cities branch in Golden Valley; meanwhile Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp announced that it will open its first banking branch within a Minnesota hospital.
Carlson Real Estate Company is working with an investment banking firm to assist it in exploring "strategic alternatives" regarding its real estate portfolio, which includes a 36-story complex in Minneapolis containing the Radisson Plaza Hotel and Plaza Seven Office Tower.
Crown Bank was sued by the receiver in the Petters bankruptcy case, and it also faces accusations of fraud from Nevada-based Beal Bank-but the Edina-based bank has denied any wrongdoing and says the cases don't raise questions about its overall operations.
A recent settlement requires five of the nation's largest banks to pay roughly $25 billion in relief to U.S. homeowners-and Minnesota borrowers are expected to receive up to $280 million under the deal.
Datacard Group has invested in DeviceFidelity, and it will now offer the company's In2Pay technology, which allows consumers to make purchases with the wave of a smartphone.
Northwestern Mutual's Twin Cities offices expect to hire 94 financial representatives and 206 interns in 2012; Northwestern Mutual says that 45 percent of its senior field managers began their careers with the company as interns.