Mississippi Business Journal » Bill Bynum http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Bynum picked by Bureau http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/30/bynum-picked-by-bureau/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bynum-picked-by-bureau http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/30/bynum-picked-by-bureau/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2012 06:01:55 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=63313 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has named Bill Bynum, CEO of HOPE (Hope Enterprise Corporation/Hope Credit Union) as vice chairman of the federal agency’s inaugural Consumer Advisory Board. Bynum will bring nearly three decades of experience in community development finance to the task of advising the agency in its efforts to help consumer finance [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/27/cdfis-can-be-%e2%80%98game-changers%e2%80%99-here-hope-enterprise-ceo-says/feed/ 0 There are options for those with poor credit http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/17/there-are-options-for-those-with-poor-credit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=there-are-options-for-those-with-poor-credit http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/17/there-are-options-for-those-with-poor-credit/#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 06:00:00 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=32006 Mississippi businesses and consumers who struggle to gain credit can turn to nearly a dozen lenders in the state that have received more than $250 million in low-cost capital from the Treasury Department under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Mississippi’s financial institutions led the nation in total funding from TARP’s Community Development Capital [...]

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