Small Businesses Create Jobs and Help Drive Economic Growth. Associated Bank was named the No. From Oct.1, 2008 to Sept. 30, 2009, Associated Bank made 317 SBA 7 loans for a total value of more than $25 million. “We commend Associated Bank’s continued support to small business lending,” says SBA Wisconsin District Director Eric Ness.

An article Friday about the Milwaukee County Board incorrectly stated that the board had added money to the 2010 budget for indigent burials. ---- An item Tuesday in the Regional News Briefing about Wauwatosa Ald.

The leadership skills and experience of Associated Banc-Corp's newly hired chief executive from California "far outweighed any potential concerns about a Midwest banking connection," the banking company's chairman-to-be said Tuesday.

Associated Banc-Corp, which looked to the nation's East Coast six years ago for its current chief executive, has turned to the West Coast for its next one. The Green Bay parent company of Associated Bank said Monday it has appointed Philip B. Flynn, vice chairman and chief operating officer of San Francisco-based Union Bank as its new president and chief executive.

A currency investment program under investigation by regulators and a federal grand jury in Minneapolis has begun to spin off lawsuits against some "third-party" companies that allegedly facilitated the investments.

A currency investment program under investigation by regulators and a federal grand jury in Minneapolis has begun to spin off lawsuits against some "third-party" companies that allegedly facilitated the investments.

Philip B. Flynn will become president and chief executive officer of Associated Banc-Corp and a director of the Green Bay company on Dec. 1, succeeding Paul S. Beideman, who will retire. Flynn, 52, has been with Union Bank, San Francisco, since 1980, most recently as vice chairman and chief operating officer.

Associated Elects William R. Hutchinson Chairman of the Board of Directors. Associated Banc-Corp announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Philip B. Flynn as President and Chief Executive Officer of Associated Banc-Corp and a director of Associated Banc-Corp effective December 1, 2009.

A regulator's special scrutiny of Associated Banc-Corp probably won't lead to any immediate capital raising effort, two analysts said Wednesday. But one said he thought most of what's left of the Green Bay-based banking firm's quarterly dividend may be in jeopardy.