Key SBA Official to Keynote PALS Workshop
on Member Business Lending
Javdan to Address NCUA’s Free Workshop March
25 in San Francisco
February 13, 2004, San Francisco – Small Business Administration
(SBA) General Counsel David Javdan will present a keynote address to
credit union officials learning about member business lending at a
free Partnering and Leadership Successes (PALS) workshop March 25 in
San Francisco. Javdan is one of the key SBA officials who a year ago
changed a critical legal interpretation to allow all credit unions
to apply for business loan guarantees under SBA’s 7(a) program.
“Credit union participation in the loan guarantee program has
nearly doubled since SBA made all credit unions eligible,” pointed
out National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board Member Debbie
Matz, who is co-hosting the workshop with NCUA Vice Chair JoAnn Johnson. “However,” Matz
acknowledged, “I have heard from many credit union officials
who are still unsure how to become SBA lenders.”
Matz said Javdan’s panel presentation was “so well received
at the first PALS member business lending workshop, I have invited
him back as a keynote speaker. This keynote address will present more
of an opportunity to explain the loan guarantee program and the requirements
for credit unions to partner with SBA. We want to provide as many perspectives
as possible to help credit union leaders decide whether member business
lending is right for their credit union.”
Javdan joins a dynamic lineup of speakers who will share ideas that
federal and state credit unions have implemented to safely make member
business loans. Other government experts and business loan consultants
will address risk factors and partnership opportunities.
To view the agenda, register for the workshop, and reserve a hotel
room using NCUA’s group rate, visit www.ncua.gov, click PALS,
then click Schedules.
Other co-hosts for this workshop include the California, Nevada, Oregon,
and Washington credit union leagues; the Credit Union Association of
the West; and the National Federation of Community Development Credit
Unions.
A 24-year public service veteran, Matz is a member of three credit
unions and resides in McLean, Va. with her husband and two children.
Before her appointment to the NCUA Board, Matz was appointed by President
Clinton as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration in the Department
of Agriculture.
The National Credit Union Administration, governed by a three-member
board appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, is the
independent federal agency that regulates, charters and supervises
federal credit unions. NCUA, with the backing of the full faith and
credit of the U.S. government, operates and manages the National Credit
Union Share Insurance Fund, insuring the savings of more than 80 million
account holders in all federal credit unions and the overwhelming majority
of state-chartered credit unions.
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