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Penn Community Bank Welcomes New Director of Residential and Consumer Lending: Jim Calista
Penn Community Bank, the largest mutual bank in eastern Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce the hiring of Jim Calista, SVP – Director of Residential and Consumer Lending. In his new role, Calista will lead the bank’s team of Mortgage Loan Officers and consumer lenders. His past experience includes eight years as a mortgage lender and…
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Wiser Wealth: Proactive Investments Options as a Hedge Against Inflation
2021 marked a steep year for climbing inflation, causing many to reevaluate what to do to safeguard their financial future. Some are hopeful the current inflation rates will simply settle back down to what they were, but it never hurts to be proactive with your plans in case the current rates are here to stay.…
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‘Big Board’ Surfing: One Bucks County Firm’s Stock Ranks Among Region’s Best 2021 Performers
Last year was good for publicly traded companies in the Philadelphia region, with over 60 percent of them recording stock price gains in 2021, writes Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The publication examined at 118 publicly traded companies in the area to determine the biggest winners. It found that among the 20 best…
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Community in Space: New Levittown Business Launched to Help Other Firms Reach the Stars
A new Levittown business venture launched with the start of the new year. Community in Space will increase investor accessibility to the space industry while also providing space-related companies with sustainable trajectories toward growth. The company has been formed to provide space and space-related companies with a financially sustainable approach to manifesting technology, as well…
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Meridian Bank Donates $2,500 to Great Valley School District Education Foundation
Aliese Rosado, Assistant Vice President and Retail Market Manager at Meridian Bank, recently visited the Great Valley School District, along with her colleague, Carl Buchholz, the bank’s SBA Franchise Specialist and a 2009 graduate of Great Valley High School. The pair presented a $2,500 check to the Great Valley School District Education Foundation (GVSDEF). The…
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Wiser Wealth: Four Ideas to Protect Your Cash From Inflation
We have seen a lot of dramatic financial shifts since the pandemic started, including the highest increase in inflation in over three decades just back in October. That is why the founder of the largest hedge fund in the world, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, is saying that leaving your cash just sitting around is…
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Penn Community Bank Invests in Both New and Existing Team Members
Penn Community Bank is kicking off 2022 with an announcement of increased support for existing employees and new team members joining the financial institution. The per-hour base pay rate is now $17 for all positions, effective immediately. The increase is an economic benefit to all new hires and 10 percent of existing team members. In…
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Lotto Luck: Honey Brook Man Is America’s First Millionaire of the New Year
Honey Brook resident Brian Mineweaser rung in 2022 as the “Powerball First Millionaire of the Year” after he became the lucky winner of $1 million, writes Carly O’Neill for FOX 43. He was randomly selected in a drawing among the five finalists and was delivered the good news during ABC’s live broadcast of Dick Clark’s…
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Wiser Wealth: 8 Investment Challenges and Opportunities for 2022
The start of the pandemic was a highly unpredictable time for investors, with so many businesses either going into lockdown precautions or being so heavily impacted that they went bankrupt. This sent a lot of normally stable investments into a flux that nobody was used to. However, two years out from the pandemic, analysts have…
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Host of ‘Mad Money’ Returns to Pa., Deeply Invested as a Quakertownian
After spending decades living in New York, Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money has settled in Quakertown. Jeff Blumenthal covered Bucks County’s newest high-profile resident for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The last time Cramer called the Philadelphia area home was when he graduated from Springfield High School in Montgomery County in 1973. He was…
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WSFS Bank: Why This Winter Could Be a Great Time to Get Back into House Hunting
Over the past two years, the real estate market has pivoted many times. Depending on where you live, you might have experienced a hold on the market at the beginning of COVID-19, then there was a slight dip as the unknown of the pandemic loomed, and finally the market that we have been experiencing this…
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Citadel Credit Union Hires Phil Sutliff as Head of Business Banking
Citadel Credit Union has hired Phil Sutliff as its Head of Business Banking. Sutliff joins Citadel from Blue Federal Credit Union in Colorado, where he served as the Vice President of Business Banking, and he previously held leadership roles at both Santander Bank and Bank of America. At Citadel, Sutliff will focus on building and…
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Wiser Wealth: As New Years Approaches, Some Opportunity Zone Benefits Are Poised to Expire
In recent years, more people have been turning to opportunity zone funds to invest in due to the variety of appealing tax breaks they offer. However, very soon, one of those tax breaks is going to be disappearing, and it is causing a rush of new investors clamoring to get involved before they miss out.…
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‘We’re Quickly Growing Here’: Need for More Elbow Room Prompts Meridian Bank to Purchase Building in Exton
After outgrowing its Malvern headquarters, Meridian Bank has purchased a 32,800-square-foot office building in Exton. The site will be used for the expansion of the financial services company, writes Natalie Kostelni for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Meridian bought 367 Eagleview Boulevard for $3.69 million from Willner Properties, which acquired the site that was vacated by…
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Bucks County Leadership: Jeane M. Vidoni, President & CEO of Penn Community Bank
Jeane Vidoni, the CEO of Penn Community Bank, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about being born in Cleveland and growing up in Allentown; being inspired by the compassion and tolerance her father displayed as her mother suffered from an untreated mental illness; getting her license and a job on her 16th birthday, and working full-time at…
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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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Wiser Wealth: Post-Covid, Emotion Could Play a Stronger Role in Commercial Real Estate Investment
In many business dealings, the sage advice given is to check your emotions at the door and focus on the financial aspect. That may be logical, but humans are not robots. The way something makes us feel can be what finally tips the scale one way or another on a decision. The commercial real estate…
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