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Reading Cooperative’s Best Ever Pi Day Celebration
Well, readers, I’ve got pie on my face today. I’ve written about more than one bank rebranding recently, and one of those was Reading Cooperative.
Student Loan Paydown Perks Worth A Second Look
I’ve always been interested in demographic trends and what that means for the industries we cover here at B&T. In this week’s paper, I wrote about how employers are looking at the older end of their workforce.
Guest Post: Fidelity Bank CEO’s Thoughts In The Holiday Season
If you value the differences in people, the differences will create value.
Hope In The Dark: Massachusetts Banks Get Top Marks For LGBTQ Inclusion
If you’re anything like me and spend the majority of your work day behind a computer, it can be difficult to avoid what feels like the constant onslaught of bad news, fake news and malicious gossip swirling on social media. Today, I’d like to shine a little light on...
Guest Post: Navigating Mobile Banking
It’s no secret that technology is rapidly changing the way we lead our lives and do business. Countless tasks that were once considered time-consuming and tedious can now be completed with the swipe of a finger and a tap on a screen.
Hats Off To HarborOne’s Wilkinson
We don’t often cover awards bestowed by other trade publications here at Banker & Tradesman, but when I saw that American Banker had recently recognized HarborOne’s Maureen Wilkinson, I knew I wanted to write something about it. Wilkinson recently received the...
B&T Catches Up With Salem Five CEO On Georgetown Deal
When news of Salem Five’s latest deal broke last week, I was out of the office* and unable to reach the bank’s leadership for a comment immediately. We wrote the story, of course, but I always like to get a little extra commentary about why a particular merger or...
Millennials: What Are We Ruining This Week?
In this week’s edition of “Millennials: What Are We Ruining Now?” – credit unions. According to a recent study out of FICO, credit unions lose “primary status” among the Millennial generation (commonly identified as those born between 1980 and 2000) as they age....
Eastern Helps Kick Start Student Vets Fund At UML
Veterans often say they want a hand up, not a hand out, and that’s exactly what Eastern Bank is trying to provide with its latest charitable donation.
LIMRA Reports: Though Bank Life Insurance Sales Down, Growing Millennial Base A Positive Move
Today’s guest post comes from LIMRA, a worldwide research, learning and development organization and source of industry knowledge, helping more than 850 insurance and financial services companies in 64 countries.
Finance Gets Fresh At Student Banking Competition
It’s safe to say that one would not generally associate financial literacy with rap music, apart from the occasional bankrupt former star’s lack thereof. However, one group of student bankers from Medway High School’s Charles River Bank branch brought the two very...
BSB Dips Into Big Data
Earlier this spring, I wrapped a couple of smaller stories into a larger piece about the increasing use of big data in the financial services world. As sometimes happens, I got an email a couple weeks later from somebody piping up to say, "Hey, we do something like...
Let Me Tell You About HarborOne’s Pitch Contest
Before Small Business Month comes to a close, I wanted to highlight something pretty cool I learned about at HarborOne this spring: the bank’s very first small business “pitch contest.” Modeled on the ABC show “Shark Tank,” the bank held the competition early this...
Blogging For A Cause: ALS One
May being National Small Business Month, I’m naturally inundated with press releases celebrating one spin or another on the theme. Some of it’s malarkey, of course. Do I really need to be the CEO of my life? And what does that even mean? But one of these stories did...
‘Time Is Money,’ And Other Thoughts On Financial Literacy
I’ve been meaning and meaning and meaning to write up a quick blog post on financial literacy. Today is still April, so I’m not too late. My sincerest apologies to every PR guy and gal who has patiently followed up with me week after week. For starters, HarborOne Bank...
Serving The Underserved: Chip And PIN Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
Friday will mark six months since the Oct. 1 deadline set by Visa and MasterCard to switch to EMV from magnetic stripe cards, and nearly 42 percent of retailers have not upgraded their point-of-sale terminals to be EMV compliant, according to a new EMV adoption survey...
Misery Loves Company
“Economic Misery on the Rise, According to C6 Real Misery Index,” the press release shouted at my bleary, caffeine-deprived brain earlier this week. “Well, happy freakin’ Monday to you, too,” I mumbled at my monitor. It’s not enough to have a fear index – we now must...
Guest Post: Rule The Boardroom With These Top Tips
Even in the age of multilevel social media platforms, the one-on-one, face-to-face business meeting remains an integral part of the professional landscape and presents a singular opportunity to personally connect, shake a warm hand, look into their eyes and be...
A Conversation With Webster
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to talk by phone with three of Webster Bank’s leadership team about the Waterbury, Connecticut bank’s upcoming move into Boston. I was talking to them for articles I wrote for Banker & Tradesman (as well as our sister publication,...
Taylor Trumps Trump In Celebrity Neighbor Survey
Ask any one of us here at B&T – indeed, ask any newspaper reporter or editor – and we’ll tell you we get some interesting press releases. To put it mildly. During that dead zone that the rest of the world calls “the holidays” and we in the newsroom call “just...
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