Banking & Finance
Banking & Finance
Putting a Premium on Measured Growth There’s a framed picture of downtown Holyoke on one wall of the conference room at the Dowd Agencies — downtown Holyoke circa 1870. The […]
Price Pressure The cost of healthcare, not the COVID-19 pandemic, is now the top healthcare concern facing residents of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts residents reported that only inflation and the cost […]
Counting the Cost By HUB International New England When do you need to list your teen driver on your car-insurance policy, and how can you make this additional coverage […]
Water, Water Everywhere By Peter Normand According to a 2020 report from the First Year Foundation, there were 336,000 properties in Massachusetts alone that were at some level of […]
Into the Breach When hackers gained access to a large retailer’s computer network through scam emails to employees, more than 900 store locations were affected, and 2 […]
Matters of Interest Mike Ostrowski remembers signing for his first mortgage. The year was 1982. The 30-year adjustable rate was … wait for it … 16.37%. “You could […]
Pedal to the Mettle Monson Savings Bank has been commemorating its 150th birthday in many different ways, from a time capsule to assembling and donating $15,000 worth of bicycles to […]
Making Contact When BusinessWest spoke to Jeff Sullivan in late 2019, about six months after New Valley Bank & Trust opened in downtown Springfield — the first Springfield-based bank to […]
On the Rise By Lisa Johnson You have probably noticed higher prices in many areas of your life. From gas to groceries, prices are going up, with the U.S […]
Changing Rules of the Road LexisNexis Risk Solutions recently released its 2022 U.S. Auto Insurance Trends Report, which aggregates annual market data about driving behaviors, auto-insurance shopping, underwriting, and claims […]
SPRINGFIELD — In the spring of 2017, Healthcare News and its sister publication, BusinessWest, created a new and exciting recognition program called Healthcare Heroes. It was launched with the theory […]
FLORENCE — Florence Bank announced that president and CEO Kevin Day will retire on Nov. 25, and a focused search is underway for a new leader. Day took over as […]
A Policy of Purpose After a long career growing FieldEddy (later HUB International New England) into one of the region’s most notable insurance success stories, Sam Hanmer called it quits, […]
And Why Does it Matter to My Business? By Colleen Berndt, CPA State tax nexus refers to the amount and type of business activity that must be present before […]
It’s Always Important to Know the Rules of the Road By Garrett Kelly, CPA ‘Can I deduct vehicle expenses on my tax return?’ This is one of the most […]
