Hester on CFO.com

Atlanta Associate Barry Hester authored an article Sept. 26 for CFO.com regarding the Small Business Lending Fund – a $30 billion account created last year by Congress to spur community banks to lend more to small businesses. "How successful has this effort been?" he asked. "The institutions that have received funds to date were generally already flush with cash, and many have used funds for acquisitions and for paying off their Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) obligations." Hester was invited by CFO.com to author the article after a similar series posted by our Financial Institutions Group on www.BankBryanCave.com caught the attention of CFO.com’s editors.