Banking & Finance
Banking & Finance
A Pandemic Estate Plan By Gina M. Barry COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus, has arrived in our communities. While statistics show that many people will survive being infected, […]
Natural Transition In some ways, Kevin Day is no stranger to running Florence Bank — he was already overseeing about 90% of its departments as executive vice president, a series […]
Volatility Is the Order of the Day By Jean Deliso The market has acted like a roller coaster in recent months, up one day, down another — but where will […]
Deepening Its Roots When FieldEddy Insurance entered the HUB International family a little over five years ago, it traded a name with a rich regional history for one backed by […]
Beyond the Bottom Line Mark Lussier tells the story of a newly licensed driver backing out of her driveway in South Hadley who didn’t see the 85-year-old walking along the […]
This Measure Changes the Retirement Landscape in Several Ways It’s called the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act, and it was signed into law just a few weeks […]
The State of Things By Jonathan Cohen-Gorczyca, CPA Very rarely do court cases related to state taxation make national news. South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc. (2018) was a Supreme Court […]
Forward Progress Arrha President and CEO Mike Ostrowski says credit unions have in many ways filled the void left by many of the smaller community banks that have disappeared from […]
A ‘Natural Partnership’ Mike Matty says the talks with Chris Milne began roughly two years ago. And as they often do in such cases, these discussions were somewhat intermittent in […]
A Primer on Record Retention By Emily White These days, it’s hard to imagine holding on to paper copies of every paid bill, invoice received, or other financial document. Today’s […]
Dollars and Sense By Steve Siebold It is now not only the start of a new year, but also the beginning of a new decade. Maybe the last 10 years […]
Past Is Prologue Greenfield Savings Bank has marked its sesquicentennial in a number of ways this year — from a party with cupcakes in the spring to presenting elm trees […]
Local Approach Every morning, Jeff Sullivan signs new-account letters for the most recent depositors at New Valley Bank. “We like to send a thank-you note to people for opening an […]
Complicating Matters By Kristina Drzal Houghton, CPA, MST Year-end tax planning in 2019 remains as complicated as ever. Notably, we are still coping with the massive changes included in the […]
Going for the Green One of the more challenging aspects of running a cannabis business is the inability to access banking services because banks are federally regulated, and cannabis is […]
