CHEXAR® and its secure check cashing system was born as the core operating platform for the nation’s leading Hispanic Banking initiative, El Banco de Nuestra Comunidad. El Banco combined traditional retail banking, including FDIC insured deposit products and innovative credit products, with non-traditional services such as check cashing services for non-depositors. El Banco and its secure check cashing system (now Chexar) have been featured in TIME® Magazine, The Economist®, the Wall Street Journal®, the American Banker®, and many other publications during the past 7 years.
- Banuestra Financial Corporation closes the sale of its branch banking operation
October 31, 2007
- Banuestra Financial Corporation launches prepaid debit card product to serve under served Latino market in Atlanta.
- Banuestra Financial Corporation launches prepaid debit card product to serve under served Latino market in Atlanta.
November 9, 2006 - American Banker to honor El Banco Financial President Luz Urrutia with 2006 Community Banker of the Year Award
- IBT and El Banco Partner to Provide Turnkey Program for Credit Unions to Service Latino Communities
- Texas Banking Company invests in Atlanta based Latino Financial Institution and contracts for service
June 29, 2006 - El Banco de Nuestra Comunidad expands its offerings to include top rate CDs
- Mexican Business Leaders Invest in Atlanta Based Latino Financial Institution
January 9, 2006 - Legal and Illegal
Wall Street Journal - Hispanics Offer Bankers Expanding Markets
Michigan Banker - Hispanic businesses feel the squeeze
AJC - America’s Great Divide
US Banker - Profiting from the Underbanked
TIME Magazine - Luz Lopez Urrutia as Key Speaker in the 13th Annual Best Practices in Retail Financial Services Symposium
- Ahora es Banuestra
Mundo Hispanico - Courting the Unbanked, Beyond Traditional Hubs
American Banker - Banking the Hispanic Community; it’s not about Spanish
BAFT News - Immigration and Welfare
WSJ - The Changing Market for the Underbanked
American Banker - Big Banks’ Loan Push: Illegal Immigrants
WSJ - Illegal Residents Get Legal Route to Car Coverage
WSJ - Tax Returns Rise for Immigrants in U.S. Illegally
New York Times - Banking the Hispanic Community: it’s not about Spanish
Palmetto Banker - Even Workers In U.S. Illegally Pay Tax Man
Wall Street Journal - Not in the Cards
Wall Street Journal - Bank of America Casts Wider Net for Hispanics
Wall Street Journal - Bank of America defends immigrant card program
Reuters - They Are America
New York Times - Underbanked Latinos in the U.S. Require ‘Micro-Targeting’ of Banking, Payments, And Lending Services
PR NewsWire - ‘Latino Project’ gives glimpses of local immigrant life
The Times-Tribune - Banks court a new client: The low-income earner
Wall Street Journal - The Federal Reserve Board named ten new members to its Consumer Advisory Council
- El Banco Finds Its Niche Serving Ga.’s Immigrants
American Banker - Study: Construction, service workers drive Hispanic population boom
AJC - U.S. Banks woo migrants, legal or otherwise
Wall Street Journal - Reaching Minority Markets: Community Bank Strategies
Comptroller of the Currency Administrator of National Banks - Woodforest Sets Wal-Mart Ohio Openings
July 7, 2006 - Influential Hispanics in Business
Nuevo Impacto - Banks in America are seeking out people they once shunned
The Economist - Undocumented untapped market for US mortgage lenders
Reuters - Hispanics’ buying power to outpace that of blacks in ’07
September 2006, Selig center - Opportunities in Houston to Reach the Unbanked, Houston Field Office and Community Affairs Partner to Host Banker’s Roundtable
Aug/Sept 2006 Supervisions - Serving the Underbanked: Models Vary
June 30, 2006 American Banker - Fusion en favor de institucion financiera hispana
May 24, 2006 Mundo Hispanico - Inversionistas Mexicanos se unen a institucion financiera en Atlanta
January 26, 2006 - Si se pudo: Mas de $85.000 recaudados
March 29, 2005 – La Vision - La banca hispana prospera en EE UU and “Hemos credo un ‘banco-tienda’ adaptado a las necesidades del hispano”
April 3, 2005 – El Pais - Banco de Nuestra Comunidad abre nueva sucursal
January 2, 2004 – Nuestro Semanario - El Banco serves the unbanked as a ‘non-bank’
January 31 – February 6, 2003 – Atlanta Business Chronicle - “No existen barreras cuando tenemos metas definidas”
(“Barriers don’t exist when we have well-defined goals”)
February 18, 2003 – La Vision de Georgia - La Voz Del Empresario: “Bienvenido al Banco de Nuestra Comunidad, esta es Tu Casa”
March 20, 2003 – La Voz Del Pueblo - El Banco de Nuestra Comunidad, Servicios financieros completos y sencillos
March 20, 2003 – Atlanta Latino - Finanzas estan aseguradas para inmigrantes hispanos
March 28, 2003 – Punto Hispano - Latino bank helps immigrants build credit histories
April 24, 2003 – Mundo Hispanico - Banking on a touch of home: Nashville investor plays a role in financial center aimed at Hispanics
July 31, 2003 – Tennessean - Mexican ID cards await Treasury nod, Immigrants’ bank access at stake
July 31, 2003 – The Atlanta Journal Constitution - Immigrant Outreach
July/August 2003 – Banking Strategies - Latinos confused by U.S. plan to review Mexican ID rules
August 1, 2003 – The Atlanta Journal Constitution - Del bolsillo al banco/Out of the pocket, into the bank
April 10, 2002 – Atlanta Latino - Plan de beneficios financieros para la comunidad
April 11, 2002 – Mundo Hispanico - Centro de jornaleros de Roswell sobrevive otro ano
June 13, 2002 – Mundo Hispanico - Inauguran sede del Banco de Nuestra Comunidad
July 25, 2002 – Mundo Hispanico - Bank offers services in tune with Latino community, Banco Nuestra moves into new Roswell location
August 21-27, 2002 – The Forsyth & Lake Lanier Heralds - Bank’s services target with Latino community
September 2002 – The Business Post - Banco de Nuestra Comunidad: Un nuevo concepto de la banca moderna
November 21, 2002 – Nuestro Semanario - Roswell bank focuses on needs of Hispanic immigrants
December 5, 2002 – The Atlanta Journal Constitution - Latino bank opens in Norcross office
December 25, 2002 – The Atlanta Journal Constitution - Abren segundo Banco de Nuestra Comunidad
- Acepta El Banco de Nuestra Comunidad apoyado por el Flag Bank, la matricula consular Mexicana para la apertura de cuentas
- Amid local growth, El Banco eyes Southeast markets
- Banco acepta matricula consular/Bank accepts Mexican ID card
- Banking on it
North Fulton Magazine - Coordinadora: en el 2004 comienza nueva etapa
- El Banco caters to Latino community
- El Banco de Nuestra Comunidad en Forest Park
- El Banco de Nuestra Comunidad firma acuerdo
- El Banco executives, city officials cut opening ribbon
- Multilingual Firm Helps El Banco Expand in S.E.
Global Atlanta - Noticias como son: El Banco de Nuestra Comunidad
Nuestro Semanario - SunTrust Sells Stake in Latino Venture
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