SEC probing Durham deal with Texas firm
A Texas company acknowledged Tuesday that the SEC is investigating transactions between it and Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co.
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Feds drop Durham asset-seizure suit
The federal government on Monday morning dropped a high-profile civil lawsuit seeking to seize Tim Durham’s assets after
receiving
assurance they wouldn’t vanish.
Fair Finance offices fail to reopen
Fair Finance Co. remained closed Monday morning, adding to the anxiety of Ohioans who have purchased about $200 million of
the company’s investment certificates.
Rich flocking to real estate
A survey shows wealthy investors are targeting real estate. But what about Indianapolis?
Feds seek seizure of Durham’s assets
The federal government has filed court papers seeking forfeiture of Tim Durham’s property, including his 30,000-square-foot
Geist home, another home in Los Angeles and his 2008 Bugatti sports car.
Disclosures key to feds’ probe of Durham’s Fair Finance
Any case federal prosecutors pursue against Tim Durham or his associates likely would revolve around what his Fair Finance
Co. disclosed—or didn’t disclose—to potential investors, legal observers said.
Former Huntington National Bank exec alleges age discrimination
Michael Lewis, 53, filed a complaint with the Indianapolis office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission Aug. 13 and sued Huntington Oct. 15 in Marion Superior Court.
Brizzi dropped plan to serve on board of Durham company
Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said he agreed this fall to serve on the board of Tim Durham’s Fair Finance
Co., but changed his mind several weeks later after Durham told him a newspaper was working on an investigative
story about the company.
UPDATE: FBI searches Durham-owned company offices
Ohio securities regulators say Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co. won’t be permitted to sell additional investment certificates
unless it satisfactorily answers a series of questions about the company’s ability to pay them back.
FBI serves search warrants on Durham-owned companies
The FBI on Tuesday executed search warrants at two companies led by high-profile executive Tim Durham—Indianapolis-based
Obsidian Enterprises Inc. and Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co.
Bank slogan gets acid test
The banking crisis isn’t the only reason to rethink the ubiquitous “We care” theme.
Falling property prices fuel new wave of bank woes
The second and third quarters were brutal for Indiana banks, as they set aside big reserves to cover losses on commercial
real estate loans.
HAUKE: Great ideas not as good as excellent timing
The market often stays wrong much longer than the early investors stay solvent.
Debt-shedding efforts start to pay off for Brightpoint
The wireless phone wholesaler had survived two prior recessions and recognized the spoils in tough times go to companies with
the strongest balance sheets.
Top local money managers hedge against stagflation
Faced with the potential for another bout with stagflation, investment managers are scrambling to decide how to face a future when markets may again be thrown into turmoil by the two-headed monster of frisky price increases and crummy economic conditions.
Some observers fear return of rising prices, stagnant growth
In the 1970s, stagflation—the unprecedented combination of stagnant economic growth and inflation—threatened to ruin financial institutions. Now some fear it might make a return.
Local SBA lending dropped 17 percent in 2009
Local loans issued through the Small Business Administration’s popular 7(a) guarantee program plunged by an astonishing 64
percent for three of the city’s four largest banks during 2009, while overall lending in the program slipped 17 percent in
the metro area.
RELLER: Refinancings likely to undermine prices for commercial real estate
Buyers armed with cash stand to snap up distressed properties for 40 percent less than their 2008 appraised values.
NatCity name to remain at local branches until early 2010
Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group Inc. has converted 240 former National City Bank branches to their new identity,
but the 77 Indianapolis-area locations will keep the old brand for a bit longer.
Rokita builds rep as tough enforcer of securities laws
Secretary of State Todd Rokita has relied on fines and fees to greatly increase his office’s firepower without a tax hike.