The Helm: banking, lending and business insight for Minnesota

Kevin Hegland, senior lending officer for Carver County at Security Bank & Trust Co., reviewing a document with a customer at his desk

How Interest Rates Affect Business Loans: The Fed, the 5-Year Treasury and Your Next Reset The Federal Reserve raised its target rate on September 16, a quarter point to 3.75 to 4 percent. How interest rates affect business loans depends on …

Business Strategy

Minnesota family reading the trustee provisions of a trust document at a kitchen table

Changing Trustees on a Minnesota Trust: How It Works and What the New Trustee Needs A trust names its trustee once. Life changes that person more than once. Here is how a trusteeship changes hands in Minnesota, and what a successor …

Harvesting a Minnesota field in the fall, ahead of farm operating line renewal season

Renewing Your Farm Operating Line: What Your Lender Needs This Fall Your 2027 operating line gets decided this fall, before renewal season opens. By the time the renewal is signed, the numbers that set it were fixed …

Modern single story dental office building with parking, the kind a practice buyer would finance

Buying a Dental Practice in Minnesota: Should You Buy the Building Too? The seller is retiring, and the building is for sale too. How you answer that in the first month of a practice purchase will still be shaping your …

SBA & Other Government Loan Programs

Minnesota couple writing a guidance letter to their trustee

A Grantor's Guidance Letter: Telling Your Trustee What the Trust Document Cannot A trust document tells your trustee what they are permitted to do. It almost never tells them what you meant. A grantor's guidance letter is where …

Minnesota small business owner in her shop

SBA Loans in Minnesota: Which Program Fits Which Purchase Most business owners come to us asking whether they qualify for an SBA loan. That is almost never the real question. The Small Business …

SBA & Other Government Loan Programs

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