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UBS settles student loan suit for $20m

UBS Securities Inc. will pay the organization that once issued nearly all of New Hampshire's student loans $20 million, as part of the state Securities Regulation Bureau's largest securities fraud settlement to date. UBS also agreed to reimburse the bureau…

2003 letter to AG: freeze FRM assets

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office was asked in 2003 about freezing the assets of Financial Resources Mortgage Inc. -- more than six years before the Meredith firm went bankrupt.That bankruptcy could cost hundreds of investors millions of dollars in…

Rosenberger named FairPoint’s N.H. president

Teresa Rhodes Rosenberger, director of government affairs for the Manchester-based law firm of Devine Millimet & Branch, has been named FairPoint Communications’ New Hampshire state president. In her new job, Rosenberger, whose appointment as FairPoint’s president was announced Monday, will…

Staffing agencies upbeat over hiring trends

According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the temporary help services sector added 47,000 jobs nationally in December. And since July, employment in the sector has increased by 166,000.According to data released by the New Hampshire…

What makes the Monadnock Region tick?

NHBR's editors recently met at the Hannah Grimes Center in Keene with businesspeople from around the region to get their take on how the region's economy is faring during the recession, and what their expectations are for the future.The participants…

N.H. to get $35k in Vonage settlement

New Hampshire is among 32 states that will divvy up a $3 million settlement from Vonage Holdings Corp., one of the largest Internet phone service providers, putting and end to an investigation into some of the company's business practices. According…