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Inspired by a personal finance class, Helen Telahun has created a startup that has developed an app to provide financial literacy.

Katie Lee Collier said she currently has three restaurant concepts in various stages of development planned for the St. Louis region, with the first likely to open in 2025 in St. Louis County.

Billionaire Bill Gates has made a big bet on Anheuser-Busch InBev, even as the Bud Light maker has struggled.

Webster University's top board official on Wednesday said he was aware of litigation involving its downtown St. Louis campus — plus longterm enrollment declines and a credit downgrade last year, but said he expects the school to soon report more students for its fall term.

A global insurance brokerage and financial services firm has entered the St. Louis market with the acquisition of a locally based health care insurance and employee benefits provider.

The company expects to exceed its goal this year of $1.5 billion in buy-backs.

A plan long in the works to convert the Chesterfield Mall site into more than $2 billion of new mixed-use development received final approval from city officials Tuesday night.

The St. Louis Business Journal has opened up the nomination process for the 2024 Best Places to Work Awards program.

In late 2022, CommerceHealthcare® published its annual assessment of leading issues and opportunities influencing providers. The report, Healthcare Finance Trends for 2023 – Multiple Intersecting Challenges, offered eight themes in four overarching categories: Financial. Patient financial experience. Digital transformation. Building trust. Four financial themes were prominent in the year’s first half. Chasing elusive profitability The median hospital operating margin turned positive…

More than 4 million federal student loan borrowers are enrolled in the Biden administration’s new repayment program, according to figures released Tuesday by the Department of Education. With the pause of more than three years on federal student loan repayments coming to an end in October, and the Supreme Court’s summer decision to strike down the White House’s one-time debt relief program, the Department of Education has rolled out several repayment and loan forgiveness programs. One of those…

Philadelphia-based attorney Richard Scheff, who is a former federal prosecutor, had led Armstrong Teasdale's East Coast expansion and operations.

Four creditors on Thursday filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the owner of a St. Louis hospital.

The owner of the Arcade Building in downtown St. Louis is suing Webster University, claiming that it quit paying rent on its space in the building.

Latch Inc. will rebrand to Door.com as it increases its focus on providing technology to help service providers manage their businesses.

United Airlines said Tuesday it repaired a technology glitch that had forced it to halt departures nationwide, briefly crippling one of the nation's biggest carriers on a busy travel day. Federal officials said United crews had been unable to contact airline dispatchers through normal means. “A software update caused a widespread slowdown in United’s technology systems,” and was not a cybersecurity issue, United said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. The Federal Aviation…

The Kansas City Chiefs' estimated valuation is less than half that of the NFL-leading Dallas Cowboys.

A St. Louis-based automotive logistics company bought a vehicle logistics and remarketing services business based in California.

A veto session could indicate how much influence the Missouri governor has left. Plus, a clear favorite has emerged to be the next speaker of the Missouri House.

Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), which operates several facilities in Metro East, said late Monday that it continues working to address a weeklong computer outage following a "cybersecurity incident."

Over the Labor Day weekend, SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital nurses voted in favor of a strike as several of them say they are not being heard by SSM Health leaders. Ninety-four percent of the nurses at SLU Hospital voted in favor of a strike. They’ve been without a contract since June. Nurses say staffing shortages at SLU Hospital are already at the point where it's tough to dedicate the appropriate amount of time to each patient and something has to change. National Nurses United…