http://www.hispanictips.com A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos Fri, 16 May 2008 15:43:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/illegal-immigrant-ban-a-first-states-move-has-shaken-up-the-academic-world-north-carolinas-community-colleges-ban-on-illegal-immigrants/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/illegal-immigrant-ban-a-first-states-move-has-shaken-up-the-academic-world-north-carolinas-community-colleges-ban-on-illegal-immigrants/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 19:34:20 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/illegal-immigrant-ban-a-first-states-move-has-shaken-up-the-academic-world-north-carolinas-community-colleges-ban-on-illegal-immigrants/ "N.C. community colleges are the first statewide system to bar illegal immigrants from seeking college degrees, according to the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

The move has shaken up the academic world by going beyond the nationwide debate over whether undocumented students should pay lower in-state tuition.

"This has really caught the attention and caused a lot of alarm," said Dan Hurley, the association's director of State Relations and Policy Analysis. "Charging them out-of-state tuition is one thing, but barring them entirely is another." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/15/illegal-immigrant-ban-a-first-states-move-has-shaken-up-the-academic-world-north-carolinas-community-colleges-ban-on-illegal-immigrants/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/north-carolina-community-colleges-will-no-longer-admit-illegal-immigrants/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/north-carolina-community-colleges-will-no-longer-admit-illegal-immigrants/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 17:20:47 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/north-carolina-community-colleges-will-no-longer-admit-illegal-immigrants/ "North Carolina's community colleges will no longer admit illegal immigrants, returning to more restrictive policy on the advice of the state Attorney General's Office." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/13/north-carolina-community-colleges-will-no-longer-admit-illegal-immigrants/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/08/taco-maker-has-taste-for-upstate/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/08/taco-maker-has-taste-for-upstate/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 17:47:24 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/08/taco-maker-has-taste-for-upstate/ "Carlos Budet, executive vice president and chief operating officer of FransGlobal, said his company wants maybe 15 or more of The Taco Maker restaurants and its other concepts open in Greenville, and 60 or more throughout the state.

He said the company is looking for franchisees to operate the company's brand here.

The company's first South Carolina sites will open in June, thanks to a contract with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Budet said his company would open restaurants in partnership with Wal-Marts in Gaffney and Dillon." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/08/taco-maker-has-taste-for-upstate/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/08/spanish-becomes-a-valuable-tool-in-career-for-the-north-carolina-real-estate-agent/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/08/spanish-becomes-a-valuable-tool-in-career-for-the-north-carolina-real-estate-agent/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 16:09:33 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/08/spanish-becomes-a-valuable-tool-in-career-for-the-north-carolina-real-estate-agent/ "Now an agent with Keller Williams Realty in Kernersville, Peregrina has found that being bilingual has paid off, but in ways he never imagined. How many Realtors can explain fideicomiso, or escrow, in Spanish? For his Spanish-speaking clients, Peregrina has become as much of an educator as he is a real-estate agent.

"It can be a very confusing process. Like adjustable-rate mortgages really confused a lot of people, and agents had to use young children to translate during the complicated process of buying house," Peregrina said.

He noted that in the Mexican culture most people do not go into debt to buy their homes. They start to build their houses and then stop until they get the money to complete the construction process, sometimes taking two to three years to finish." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/08/spanish-becomes-a-valuable-tool-in-career-for-the-north-carolina-real-estate-agent/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/29/elizabeth-doles-focus-on-immigration-enforcement-draws-dem-critique/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/29/elizabeth-doles-focus-on-immigration-enforcement-draws-dem-critique/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:34:24 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/29/elizabeth-doles-focus-on-immigration-enforcement-draws-dem-critique/ "Two Democrats running for the U.S. Senate say incumbent Republican Elizabeth Dole walked away from the negotiating table during a critical point of a nationwide debate about illegal immigration last year.

State Sen. Kay Hagan and Chapel Hill entrepreneur Jim Neal also say Dole's effort to enforce federal immigration law at a local level is misguided." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/29/elizabeth-doles-focus-on-immigration-enforcement-draws-dem-critique/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/25/north-carolina-governors-candidates-want-tough-immigration-rules/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/25/north-carolina-governors-candidates-want-tough-immigration-rules/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:24:54 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/25/north-carolina-governors-candidates-want-tough-immigration-rules/ "A state governor has no control over the nation's immigration policy. But that fact isn't keeping North Carolina's major-party candidates for governor from pushing a get-tough platform on illegal immigration.

Both the Republican and Democratic hopefuls believe North Carolina must become more involved with efforts to curb immigration abuses in the state's driver's license bureaus, in the workplace and on campus. They feel the federal government has failed to pass the immigration reform measures the state and the nation need." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/25/north-carolina-governors-candidates-want-tough-immigration-rules/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/25/here-are-three-questions-posed-by-the-associated-press-to-the-eight-major-party-candidates-for-governor-in-north-carolina-on-the-topic-of-illegal-immigration-followed-by-their-unabridged-responses/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/25/here-are-three-questions-posed-by-the-associated-press-to-the-eight-major-party-candidates-for-governor-in-north-carolina-on-the-topic-of-illegal-immigration-followed-by-their-unabridged-responses/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:23:02 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/25/here-are-three-questions-posed-by-the-associated-press-to-the-eight-major-party-candidates-for-governor-in-north-carolina-on-the-topic-of-illegal-immigration-followed-by-their-unabridged-responses/ "1. North Carolina has taken small steps in recent years to make it tougher for illegal immigrants to obtain a driver's license or get a state government job. If elected, what would changes to state law or policy would you seek in your first year as governor to address the issue of illegal immigration?

2. Sheriffs in a few North Carolina counties now participate in a federal program allowing them to help enforce federal immigration laws. Should local law enforcement officials statewide enforce federal immigration law? Will you direct the state Highway Patrol and other state law enforcement agencies to do so?

3. Should the University of North Carolina system adopt a policy - similar to that of the state community college system - allowing illegal immigrants to enroll?" HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/25/here-are-three-questions-posed-by-the-associated-press-to-the-eight-major-party-candidates-for-governor-in-north-carolina-on-the-topic-of-illegal-immigration-followed-by-their-unabridged-responses/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/mecklenburg-county-commissioner-bill-james-controversial-comments-stir-up-latino-community-illegal-immigrants-do-pay-taxesso-do-prostitutes-and-drug-dealers-north-carolina/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/mecklenburg-county-commissioner-bill-james-controversial-comments-stir-up-latino-community-illegal-immigrants-do-pay-taxesso-do-prostitutes-and-drug-dealers-north-carolina/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:55:11 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/mecklenburg-county-commissioner-bill-james-controversial-comments-stir-up-latino-community-illegal-immigrants-do-pay-taxesso-do-prostitutes-and-drug-dealers-north-carolina/ "A Mecklenburg County commissioner issues some strong statements about illegal immigrants.

Tonight, some in the Latino community say he has gone too far.

Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James says he's not backing down after what he said about immigrants last week." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/mecklenburg-county-commissioner-bill-james-controversial-comments-stir-up-latino-community-illegal-immigrants-do-pay-taxesso-do-prostitutes-and-drug-dealers-north-carolina/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/a-carolinas-medical-center-physician-has-received-a-300000-grant-for-research-on-improving-access-to-primary-care-services-for-charlottes-hispanic-population/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/a-carolinas-medical-center-physician-has-received-a-300000-grant-for-research-on-improving-access-to-primary-care-services-for-charlottes-hispanic-population/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:26:50 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/a-carolinas-medical-center-physician-has-received-a-300000-grant-for-research-on-improving-access-to-primary-care-services-for-charlottes-hispanic-population/ "The funds are provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Physician Faculty Scholars Program.

Dr. Michael Dulin, the grant recipient, is director of research and evidence-based medicine in the CMC Department of Family Medicine. He also is the director of the Mecklenburg Area Partnership for Primary Care Research and a co-founder of a statewide primary-care research consortium." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/a-carolinas-medical-center-physician-has-received-a-300000-grant-for-research-on-improving-access-to-primary-care-services-for-charlottes-hispanic-population/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/espn-radio%e2%80%99s-return-cuts-spanish-format-fayetteville-north-carolina/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/espn-radio%e2%80%99s-return-cuts-spanish-format-fayetteville-north-carolina/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:19:32 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/espn-radio%e2%80%99s-return-cuts-spanish-format-fayetteville-north-carolina/ "ESPN Radio has expanded in the Fayetteville market, but the change has cost Hispanics the only Spanish-language station in town.

On April 17, WFAY (1230 AM) started simulcasting the sports programming heard on ESPN Radio-affiliate WCIE (1450 AM) in Spring Lake. Together, these stations have formed what’s being promoted as the Fayetteville ESPN Sports Network.

With the change, WFAY dropped the Spanish-language format introduced less than two years ago when the Norsan Group of Tucker, Ga., bought the station for $850,000 from the Colonial Radio Group. Before then, WFAY carried ESPN Radio, so this on-air programming merger marks a return to sports talk." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/24/espn-radio%e2%80%99s-return-cuts-spanish-format-fayetteville-north-carolina/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/22/latina-victims-suffering-in-silence-for-fear-of-deportation-north-carolina/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/22/latina-victims-suffering-in-silence-for-fear-of-deportation-north-carolina/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:01:49 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/22/latina-victims-suffering-in-silence-for-fear-of-deportation-north-carolina/ "Among those whose lives are afflicted by sexual abuse, there is a victim population likely suffering in silence and largely unaccounted for because they fear that reporting the crime would lead to another tragic demise: deportation.

Karen Arias, Latina victims advocate for the 30th Judicial District Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Alliance, said 72 immigrant victims reported domestic violence and sexual assault between July 2007 and March 2008. Of those, 48 victims were women, 24 were men. " HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/22/latina-victims-suffering-in-silence-for-fear-of-deportation-north-carolina/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/22/housing-woes-rough-on-latino-immigrants-in-north-carolina/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/22/housing-woes-rough-on-latino-immigrants-in-north-carolina/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:26:36 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/22/housing-woes-rough-on-latino-immigrants-in-north-carolina/ "The housing market crash and the ensuing troubles in credit markets in the past year have caused home values to plummet, forced mortgage foreclosures, slowed the economy and put many businesses in financial peril.

First-time, low-income home buyers have been particularly hard hit as lenders are increasingly reluctant to take chances on them.

Latino newcomers have been especially impacted as North Carolina has experienced an influx of immigration, said Paul Stock, executive vice president of the N.C. Bankers Association." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/22/housing-woes-rough-on-latino-immigrants-in-north-carolina/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/21/illegal-immigration-looms-as-a-key-issue-in-this-years-governors-race-north-carolina/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/21/illegal-immigration-looms-as-a-key-issue-in-this-years-governors-race-north-carolina/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:21:47 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/21/illegal-immigration-looms-as-a-key-issue-in-this-years-governors-race-north-carolina/ "The mayor of Charlotte has been “quite an ambassador” to the city’s Latinos, says Nolo Martinez.

But the candidate for governor from Charlotte, said Martinez, head of UNC-Greensboro’s Center for New North Carolinians, has been “the most anti-immigrant candidate in the mix.”" HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/21/illegal-immigration-looms-as-a-key-issue-in-this-years-governors-race-north-carolina/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/16/%e2%80%98showgram%e2%80%99-stunt-angers-hispanics-raleigh-north-carolina/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/16/%e2%80%98showgram%e2%80%99-stunt-angers-hispanics-raleigh-north-carolina/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:16:27 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/16/%e2%80%98showgram%e2%80%99-stunt-angers-hispanics-raleigh-north-carolina/ "One day after members of the morning show on Raleigh radio station WDCG made derogatory remarks about American Indians, the “Bob and the Showgram” crew took aim at Hispanics and the area’s Mexican consulate.

For a segment on the April 2 “Showgram” program, crew member John Clark wore a T-shirt with “INS” taped to it while approaching people in line at the consulate on Six Forks Road in Raleigh. Bob Dumas, the principal host of the highly rated show, insulted some Spanish-speaking citizens when he said: “It made me a little mad when I saw the giant Mexican flag” outside the consulate." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/16/%e2%80%98showgram%e2%80%99-stunt-angers-hispanics-raleigh-north-carolina/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/10/immigrant-crawled-over-mountains-lottery-find-good-life-asheville-north-carolina/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/10/immigrant-crawled-over-mountains-lottery-find-good-life-asheville-north-carolina/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:49:53 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/10/immigrant-crawled-over-mountains-lottery-find-good-life-asheville-north-carolina/ "José Cordoba, a maker of fine women’s shoes, walked hundreds of miles across Mexico in 1990 in order to find a job in the United States. Today, he is a U.S. citizen with a home in West Asheville, and his daughter, July, is about to graduate from the nursing program at Western Carolina University." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/10/immigrant-crawled-over-mountains-lottery-find-good-life-asheville-north-carolina/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/07/north-carolina-bank-partners-with-fiserv-target-hispanic-market/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/07/north-carolina-bank-partners-with-fiserv-target-hispanic-market/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:38:40 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/07/north-carolina-bank-partners-with-fiserv-target-hispanic-market/ "Information Technology, Inc. (ITI), a business unit of Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV), a leading provider of information management systems and services, has partnered with Nuestro Banco, a de novo financial institution with a business plan dedicated to serving the Hispanic consumer and small business segments. The bank opened in September 2007, and has joined forces with Fiserv ITI to deploy the powerful Premier® core system as they pursue the expanding market from their headquarters in the Raleigh, North Carolina area.

“The Hispanic population is growing at 20 percent per year in North Carolina,” explained David Flores, president and chief executive officer of Nuestro Banco, “and the group’s purchasing power is actually growing faster than the population growth rate. The Census Bureau estimates that by 2050, one fourth of the nation’s population will be of Hispanic origin, yet today, the Latino populace as a whole is severely underbanked,” said Flores. “The key to capturing their business will be to design new ways to bank – ways that accommodate the Hispanic culture, habits and way of thinking. We understand these factors, and so does Fiserv.”

The bank looked at several core providers over a three-month period before deciding on ITI’s Premier® and outsourced processing services through the Fiserv ITI data center in Atlanta. Usability and an array of features were pivotal to Nuestro Banco’s choice, but they said that even more important than the software products were the professionals behind them.

“We wanted a software partner who not only understood the dynamics of the Hispanic banking market as it stands today, but one who could see the long-term direction the financial industry will take in response to its expansion. We wanted to partner with a company who can take us to the forefront, and Fiserv ITI was the only one who stood up and said, ‘We can do that,’” said Flores.

Available for either outsourced or in-house account processing, the Premier software suite offers highly scalable products for virtually every function, including core accounting, branch and Internet banking, business intelligence, risk and compliance, remote capture and transaction management, enterprise business process and content management – all available on the industry’s most popular hardware platforms for financial institutions of all types and sizes.

Among the technology partners serving the nation’s community banks, Fiserv ITI is recognized as a thought leader in Hispanic banking, offering an array of solutions including Spanish-language Internet and telephone banking software, online branding services, and a popular Hispanic Banking Toolkit that provides insight into cultural differences and common barriers to banking for Hispanics, as well as product and service recommendations, marketing strategies, best-practice tips and more.

“We were very impressed with Fiserv’s comprehension of the Hispanic culture,” said Flores. Nuestro Banco is particularly looking forward to implementing Premier’s workflows and processes that accommodate commercial lending, because of the potential offered by the growing number of small businesses owned by Latinos in North Carolina. Flores added ITI’s flexible, integrated software will enable Nuestro Banco to capture a vital portion of the Hispanic lending market by providing entrepreneurs the services they need to grow their businesses.

Scalability was also a factor in Nuestro Banco’s decision to work with Fiserv ITI. The bank has an aggressive growth plan that includes two branch openings a year for the next several years and it hopes this plan will leave them in a position to dominate the Hispanic banking sector throughout the southeastern U.S.

“The ability of ITI’s Premier software to grow with us and respond to our needs, and our customers’ needs, will allow us to succeed and thrive as the Hispanic market evolves,” said Flores.

“It’s estimated the Hispanic population will account for 50 percent of all U.S. retail banking growth by 2015, and yet this market remains largely untapped by banks and credit unions,” according to Mike Young, president, Fiserv Bank & Thrift Division. “Fiserv has and will continue to develop the products and services required for Hispanic banking but it’s really our commitment to this market, and the dedicated team we’ve assembled to aid development and implementation, that makes Fiserv stand out from the competition.”

" HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/07/north-carolina-bank-partners-with-fiserv-target-hispanic-market/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/07/hispanic-educational-summit-raleigh/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/07/hispanic-educational-summit-raleigh/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:13:01 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/07/hispanic-educational-summit-raleigh/ "A standing room only crowd of more than 700 Hispanic students filled a conference room Friday to learn more about higher education. It was part of the ninth annual Hispanic Educational Summit.

"I know that [the students] all want to be somebody in life, and they all want the opportunity to do something," explained seventh-grade student Avilene Bahena.

Bahena and a dozen of her classmates made the hour and a half trip from Sampson County to Raleigh for the summit. She said she dreams of one day becoming an archeologist." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/04/07/hispanic-educational-summit-raleigh/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/31/latin-american-festival-relocates-charlotte-north-carolina/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/31/latin-american-festival-relocates-charlotte-north-carolina/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:45:55 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/31/latin-american-festival-relocates-charlotte-north-carolina/ "Charlotte's largest celebration of Latin American culture will move to a new home in October after years at the Mint Museum in the Eastover neighborhood.

The Latin American Festival will take place on Sunday, Oct. 12, at Symphony Park near SouthPark mall, an organizer confirmed to the Observer's Spanish-language blog, Entérese Charlotte.

The event draws thousands of people from throughout the region for Latin music, food and arts and crafts. Last year, about 25,000 people attended the daylong event." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/31/latin-american-festival-relocates-charlotte-north-carolina/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/31/radio-hispano-city-gets-spanish-language-radio-station-wilmington-north-carolina/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/31/radio-hispano-city-gets-spanish-language-radio-station-wilmington-north-carolina/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:07:43 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/31/radio-hispano-city-gets-spanish-language-radio-station-wilmington-north-carolina/ "It's a calculated gamble for the media company, which makes La Gran D its sixth Wilmington-based radio station.

The new station marks another milestone for NextMedia because the Spanish format is new for the group, which owns 42 stations in 12 midsized markets.

The 98.7 FM signal is the company's strongest, with 100,000 watts. The strong signal means regional Mexican music, some of which sounds like polka and is heavy on accordions, will be heard from Wilmington to New Bern and Jacksonville as well as west of Interstate 40, said David Patella, general manager of NextMedia. All told, you'll hear the signal in eight counties - New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, Duplin, Carteret, Onslow, Craven and Lenoir." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/31/radio-hispano-city-gets-spanish-language-radio-station-wilmington-north-carolina/feed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/28/nuestro-bancos-second-branch-raleigh-north-carolina/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/28/nuestro-bancos-second-branch-raleigh-north-carolina/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:16:14 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/28/nuestro-bancos-second-branch-raleigh-north-carolina/ "Eight months after opening the headquarters of the Triangle's - and the state's - first Hispanic bank, executives at Nuestro Banco are planning to open their second branch by July.

CEO David Flores says the expansion into a 3,500-square-foot north Raleigh location, which he declined to identify pending completion of property negotiations, will require adding a dozen staffers to the bank's current roster of 19.

" HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/03/28/nuestro-bancos-second-branch-raleigh-north-carolina/feed/