Banking & Finance
Banking & Finance
Open for Business Businesses didn’t stop borrowing in 2020, although much of last year’s lending activity had more to do with staying afloat with Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans than […]
Gathering Storm During times of recession or economic upheaval, the last thing economists expect is for credit-card debt to fall. Yet, that’s exactly what happened during the first year […]
Rising Tide After a summer of heavy rains in Massachusetts — and across the Northeast, for that matter — plenty of homeowners discovered their insurance policies don’t cover flood damage, […]
Expanding the Footprint Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc. and Brown & Brown Inc. recently announced the execution of a definitive agreement for the sale of the assets and operations of […]
Open for Business Holyoke-based PeoplesBank recently expanded its presence in Connecticut with a branch in West Hartford. The new location is projected to help the bank grow its already considerable […]
Developments of Interest By Mark Morris John Howland admits that the word ‘unprecedented’ is overused these days. But for him and others in the banking business, it seems like the […]
Know the Rules By James T. Krupienski, CPA At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the early parts of 2020, the concern of business survival was the number-one […]
Doing the Math For accountants, the past 18 months have been a time of change, challenge, and adapting to everything from new ways of doing business to new responsibilities […]
Where There’s Smoke… By Kristina Drzal Houghton, CPA, MST The production and distribution of cannabis, once known to many only as marijuana, is the newest and most variegated industry […]
Stating Its Case Dave Glidden is no stranger to the Western Mass. banking community, and neither is the lending team he’s assembled to grow Liberty Bank — the Connecticut-based institution […]
Brokerage App Is a Dangerous Culmination of Intersecting Trends By Jeff Liguori It was supposed to democratize Wall Street — yet another DIY trend, this time with your hard-earned […]
Strike Against Hunger Paul Scully says he wants to “throw hunger a curveball.” And to the leaders of two Massachusetts food banks, it was a welcome pitch indeed. At its […]
Give and Take With five generations in today’s workforce, employee benefits are no one-size-fits-all proposition — yet, they remain a key issue for employers looking to attract and retain a […]
Selling Online? In the early days of e-commerce, states attempted to get out-of-state companies to collect sales tax on transactions into the state — without success. Enter the Supreme Court, […]
Cover Story As he talked about insurance, and also about the agency started by his grandfather almost 91 years ago, Bob Borawski drew a number of analogies to the banking […]
