Lead Bank, a Kansas City community bank, is dedicated to the needs of women-owned businesses and supports National Women in Business Month (October) with their Women In Business Initiative. By offering exceptionally low fixed rates and up to five years for long-term loans, in addition to two hours per month of free business consulting with their Lead Business Advisors team, Lead Bank and Lead Business Advisors, is helping women-owned businesses meet their goals.

Kansas City, MO -- (SBWire) -- 10/29/2014 --Lead Bank, a locally-owned community bank is dedicated to the needs of small businesses in Kansas City and is pleased to support National Women in Business Month (October) with their Women In Business Initiative. Lead Bank has a dedicated product offering designed to support local, women-owned businesses. They offer exceptionally low fixed rates and up to five years for long-term loans in addition to two hours per month of free business consulting via their Lead Business Advisors team. Lead Bank and Lead Business Advisors, a division of Lead Bank, partners with each female business owner to help them meet their company goals. This is just one of many efforts that demonstrates how Lead Bank is committed to helping women within the Kansas City community reach their full potential.

In partnership with the nationally-acclaimed micro-finance lender, the Justine Peterson Organization, a Missouri non-profit that is the second largest micro-lender in the nation, Lead Bank is able to offer multiple financial resources for women-owned businesses. The Lead Business Advisors team provides financial, operational and strategic advice to businesses by offering monthly bookkeeping services, financial statement preparation, budget creation and reporting, as well as strategic and operational advising services. Additional benefits to Lead Bank’s Women In Business Initiative include two hours of free business consulting from Lead Business Advisors as well as access to working capital lines of credit, advanced mobile banking, online wire abilities, business bill pay and payroll cards, ACH origination, including direct payroll deposit, and web-based remote deposit capture.

“The number of women-owned businesses in Missouri has increased by nearly 40 percent in the last 15+ years. Lead Bank is dedicated to enabling female-owned businesses succeed in Kansas City and by having our Women in Business Initiative in place, Lead Bank is able to offer another tool that supports these women business owners. The Lead Business Advisors team provides strategic and operational advising and Lead Bank overall, provides access to competitive financing options,” said Josh Rowland, Vice Chairman of Lead Bank.

About Lead Bank
For more than 85 years, Lead Bank has remained a strong independent commercial bank dedicated to delivering smart financial solutions for business owners, managers and their families and communities. With two Missouri locations in Garden City and Lee’s Summit, Lead Bank provides treasury management, lending services, and personal client products. Lead Bank also offers advisory services to companies from book keeping to business brokerage services through its division, Lead Business Advisors. For additional information about Lead Bank, call (816) 220.8600 or visit http://www.leadbankonline.com