BUSINESS MEMO: SPECIAL BANK HONOR

Union Planters Bank-Cape Girardeau Region, has received special recognition as the top volume lender under Missouri's Preferred Lender in Eastern Missouri for the first six months of fiscal 1998.

Participants in the program are designated by the Small Business Administration to make SBA guaranteed loans, under a variety of programs to meet the needs of small businesses.

The SBA has a portfolio guaranteeing more than $29 billion in loans to 200,000 small businesses that otherwise would not have had such access to capital.