Banking & Finance
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Are You Missing Out? Best Cashback Shopping Sites That Earn You Money This Holiday Season, from Benchmark FCU
With prices continuing to rise, it’s more important than ever to make sure you’re not missing out on savings this holiday season. Cashback shopping sites and cashback apps can help you get money back, just for shopping. Best of all: They’re free to use. All it takes is determining which sites are most appropriate for…
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Penn Community Bank and Summit Technology Group Support Local Families for Holiday Season
Penn Community Bank is partnering with Summit Technology Group (STG) to “adopt” a dozen local families this holiday season. The outreach is part of the bank’s annual adopt-a-family program. Team members from both organizations gathered recently to purchase over $10,000 in gifts and holiday essentials for those in need across the region. “Perhaps no time…
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Ambler Savings Bank Helps Mitzvah Circle in ‘Filling Gaps’ Between People’s Needs and Government Assistance
With a $5,000 matched-contribution grant from Ambler Savings Bank, Mitzvah Circle was able to raise more than $12,000 to help local families in crisis. The Norristown outreach works to fill the gaps between individual needs and governmental assistance. It helps by answering utilitarian requests for everyday items such as personal care products, children’s car seats,…
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As Presenting Sponsor, Meridian Bank Helps United Way of Chester County Launch First Annual Golf Outing
United Way of Chester County will host its First Annual Golf Outing on April 26 on the lush, picturesque greens of Penn Oaks Golf Club in West Chester. Participants will unite for the worthy cause of contributing vital support to UWCC in its fight for the education, health, and financial stability of every person in…
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C&N Partners with Carefull, New Service Built to Organize and Protect Older Adults’ Daily Finances
C&N is partnering with Carefull, the first service built to organize and protect older adults’ daily finances, to provide its customers with Carefull’s safe money monitoring technology. In becoming the Financial Caregiving Partner to C&N, Carefull’s artificial intelligence platform will help C&N’s senior customers by analyzing checking, savings, and credit card accounts for more than…
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Penn Community Bank Fights Food Insecurity with $20,000 Donation
Penn Community Bank was honored to participate with Rolling Harvest Food Rescue to combat food insecurity throughout Bucks County. Thanks to a $20,000 donation from the bank, the New Hope-based nonprofit will be able to provide fresh produce from local farmers to area hunger-relief sites, like the one in Bensalem, where the donation was dropped…
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WSFS Bank: This Holiday Season, Approach Your Spending with an Eye on Saving
It seems everywhere we turn right now, experts are telling us to start our holiday shopping early, as supply chain challenges are expected to impact inventories for a large variety of products through the end of the year and possibly beyond. Coupled with rising inflation, this year’s holiday shopping budgets may feel particularly crunched, and…
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Three Signs of Recent Pa. College Grads: Framed Diplomas, Ready Resumes, Mountainous Student Debt
The Class of 2020 at Pennsylvania’s colleges and universities carried the third-highest level of student debt nationwide, according to the recently released 16th annual report by The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS). Patty Tascarella peered into that financial hole for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The TICAS report provides an overview of debt for…
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Jump in Home Heating Oil Prices Shouldn’t Cause Bucks County Buyers to Get Hot Under the Collar … Yet
As Bucks County weather turns increasingly frosty, many local homeowners are flipping on the heat for the first time since late spring. As they do so, they may find the resulting home heating oil bills a little surprising. Walt Frank, of the Altoona Mirror, gauged the trend. “People’s concern is that [the price of oil]…
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WSFS Bank Sets Up Collection Sites to Fight Food Insecurity in the Philadelphia Region
WSFS Bank has launched its 18th Annual Fall Food Drive to combat food insecurity across the Greater Philadelphia and Delaware region. WSFS banking office locations in Philadelphia, Bucks, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties (as well Burlington and Camden Counties in NJ) will serve as convenient food deposit centers. Donations are being sought from customers, members of…
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Civic-Minded Newtown Businessman Montu Patel Is Elected to Ambler Savings Bank Board of Trustees
Ambler Savings Bank is pleased to announce the election of Montu Patel to its board of trustees. Patel serves as the President of Innovative Hospitality Management (IHM), in Newtown and is also the Principal at Lotus Park Senior Living in Marietta, Ga. He grew up in the hotel industry, taking interest in the hotel management…
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Penn Community Bank Wins HR Department of the Year Award
Penn Community Bank is pleased to announce its Human Resources Department has been named a HR Department of the Year by a panel of business leaders throughout the region. The award, part of the Delaware Valley HR Department of the Year program, recognizes the important contributions of human resources and training departments in businesses of all sizes.…
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Professional Collaboration Between Two Local Businesses and the Philadelphia Eagles Gives Players a Reason to Smile
Philadelphia Eagles fans hear the phrase repeatedly during game coverage: “Business X is the official [car dealer, airline, power drink, etc.] of the Philadelphia Eagles. But does anyone have a clear idea of what that means? Two local businesses do. Firstrust Bank is the team’s official bank. And Advanced Dental Esthetics is its sole dental…
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Retro-Named Quaint Oak Bancorp Embraces Modern-Day Work Arrangement
You’d think a financial institution named Quaint Oak Bancorp would be conducting business in a throwback model, with quill pens on parchment. But you’d be wrong. According to Jeff Blumenthal, Philadelphia Business Journal, it has its feet fully in the 21st Century. Quaint Oak Bancorp is not only fully committed to the work-at-home model, it…
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C&N Announces 2022 Calendar Contest Winners
C&N’s annual calendar photo contest has concluded, with Erica Shirley of Painted Post, N.Y., earning the grand prize. Each spring, C&N hosts a calendar photo contest for local amateur photographers. The winning photos are featured in the bank’s upcoming calendar. In August, a panel of C&N employees selected 12 photos for the 2022 calendar, with…
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Careers — Penn Community Bank
With more than $2.5 billion in assets and over 300 team members, Penn Community Bank is the largest mutual bank in eastern Pennsylvania. Our growth mission is to deliver solutions that genuinely serve the best interests of our individual and commercial customers in ways they cannot possibly experience at more traditional financial institutions. As a…
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HV Bancorp, Parent of Huntingdon Valley Bank, Doylestown, Is a 2021 ‘SmAll Stars’ Institution
Doylestown-based HV Bancorp is among 35 notable “SmAll Stars,” a list of financial institutions recognized by Piper Sandler, a leading investment bank and institutional securities firm. Jeff Blumenthal covered the inclusion for the Philadelphia Business Journal. To earn SmAll Star status, financial institutions needed to have a market cap below $2.5 billion and have cleared…
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Annual Philadelphia Salary of $100,000 Goes Further Here Than in Most of 50 Largest U.S. Cities
The quality of life achievable on a $100,000 annual salary varies significantly depending on the state and city of residence. But locally, a Philadelphia salary at that level goes far, writes Ashley Garrett for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Garrett cites research from GoBankingRates.com to determine the local reach of a six-figure yearly earning. Philadelphia provides…
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