Live Oak Banking Co. makes most of its profit selling Small Business Administration loans on the secondary market.

Winston-Salem-based Hanesbrands has cut its debt to 2.5 times EBITDA — earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization — the lowest ratio since its spinoff from Downers Grove, Ill.-based Sara Lee Corp. in 2006

As a candidate for governor, Republican Pat McCrory pledged to make government more responsive to business, so he stocked his cabinet with secretaries who have executive experience, most of them in the private sector.  

2012 — North Carolina's year in bloopers.

Hot stocks 2013: With uncertainty plaguing the market, Business North Carolina's stock pickers play it safe in 2013. 

Asheville-based nonprofit Mountain BizWorks Inc. wants to lend larger sums to businesses past the startup phase.

Crescent Financial Services has been growing through acquisitions.

The economy is better, but top contractors are still suffering in the recession's wake.

Looking back, Hugh McColl recalls two turning points in a career that created the biggest bank in America.

Top private companies in North Carolina are growing by acquisitions, reinvesting, rebranding, introducing new products and gaining new partners.

Shareholder return is rising faster than CEO compensation, our list shows. And that’s without a nay say-on-pay vote

Kinston Republican Stephen LaRoque resigned from the General Assembly in July after federal prosecutors charged him with eight counts of financial fraud related to two nonprofit lenders he operated.

Shareholder return is rising faster than CEO compensation, our list shows. And that’s without a nay say-on-pay vote

The tepid growth of the Top 75's market value reflects the recovery's current sluggish pace.

Cover story: Keith Simmons stacked the deck against his investors in a Ponzi scheme that took in more than $40 million.

Cover story: Solid as a rock. For decades, that described Bank of Granite. Here’s what caused it to crumble.

It’s been trimmed, but Bank of America still towers over the Financial 100, where its sheer size makes it a sequoia surrounded by saplings.

Buddy Greenwood, the former president and CEO of Bank of Asheville, pleaded guilty in May to federal charges of money laundering and wire fraud.

The state's tax system, mired in the past, no longer works. But bringing it into the 21st century will take a lot of guts.

Durham-based SJF Ventures’ third private-equity fund became the first national one to be licensed by the Small Business Administration as an Impact Investment Fund.