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(Regional Pulse Podcast) - Laurel Sykes, Executive Vice President, Compliance and Risk Manager at American Riviera Bank, facilitates a two-part series on financial literacy with special guests Robb Schiff, longtime educator and AVID Coordinator with the Santa Barbara Unified School District, Chelse…
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(Laurel Sykes) - Data as of April 1, 2021 reported by the SBA shows that only 40% of the $521.2 billion in PPP loans has been forgiven to-date. While the national average reported by the SBA shows that only 46% of total 5.2 million in PPP loans have been forgiven, ARB has been successful in obtaini…
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(Idea Vault Blog) - April is National Financial Literacy Month so we are focusing this month on topics around healthy spending, saving and more. Today's topic? How to teach kids about money. Whether to your own children, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews or the child of a close friend, one of…
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(Idea Vault Blog) - Financial literacy includes many different financial skills and concepts; to be financially literate simply means having the know-how to make wise decisions with your personal finances—like managing a budget, borrowing money, paying for insurance, and saving for retirement.
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(Regional Pulse Podcast) - Jeff Devine, President and CEO of American Riviera Bank, sits down with David Asbell and Brandon Mowery of Santa Barbara's Lobero Theatre to discuss the historic theatre and the what the future may look like as things begin to open up both locally and globally. The missio…
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(American Riviera Bank) - American Riviera Bank’s Lights, Camera, Save! local winner, Amelyse Wong of Santa Barbara, has been named a national finalist by the American Bankers Association Foundation. Lights, Camera, Save! is an annual video contest that encourages teens ages 13-18 to produce a shor…
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(Regional Pulse Podcast) - Michelle Martinich, Chief Financial Officer, sits down with Nancy Martz, Executive Director of Apples to Zucchini Cooking School, to learn about her nonprofit initiative to tackle hunger on the Central Coast one child at a time, by providing the tools kids need to prepare…
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(Laurel Sykes) - You may have heard that the Biden administration mandated certain reforms to the PPP eligibility rules. The administration also pushed for a 2-week window where only small businesses with 20 or less employees will be approved by the SBA through March 9, 2021. In response to the man…
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(Idea Vault Blog) - Buying food is essential, of course, but if you’re not careful, it can also eat into your budget.
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(Laurel Sykes) - We wrote previously about delays in approvals on new PPP loans as a result of the new compliance checks put in place by the SBA to prevent against potential fraud. Just yesterday, the SBA announced a lender training to cover updates to their new Procedural Notice on revised PPP pla…
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