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Penn Community Bank Celebrates Branch Renovation with Acts of Service Throughout Perkasie
As the finale to a two-month renovation of its Perkasie – Market St. Branch, Penn Community Bank held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, May 24. But before the shears and the photographs, team members rolled up their sleeves and brought the bank’s community-first brand and mission to life. Starting with a wave of “Community Acts of Kindness,”…
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C&N Joins Nationwide Effort to Help Older Customers, Their Financial Caregivers Protect Themselves
C&N is partnering with the American Bankers Association Foundation’s Safe Banking for Seniors campaign in a nationwide effort to help older customers and their financial caregivers understand the risks of fraud and financial abuse and how to protect themselves and their loved ones. C&N is sharing tips to help eliminate the almost $2.9 billion that…
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Wiser Wealth: The 6 Mistakes You’re Making that Hurt Your Social Security Plan
Just because you are in the prime of your career now doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be thinking about what life will be like in retirement. You want to know a solid future is waiting for you, but mistakes now could hamper that. Neal Templin of the Wall Street Journal advises that according to experts,…
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Meridian Bank’s Chris Godshall Named to Bucks County Economic Development Corporation’s Board
Chris Godshall, Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending at Meridian Bank, has been named to the Bucks County Economic Development Corporation’s Board of Directors. The BCEDC is a nonprofit established in 1958 to support economic growth in Bucks County. Having joined Meridian in 2004, Godshall is the bank’s regional team leader in Bucks and Montgomery…
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C&N Offers Tips to Help Eliminate the $2.9 Billion Older Americans Lose Each Year to Fraud
C&N is partnering with the ABA (American Bankers Association) Foundation’s Safe Banking for Seniors campaign in a nationwide effort to help older customers and their financial caregivers understand the current scams and how to protect themselves and their loved ones. Throughout May, which is Older Americans Month, C&N will share articles and tips to help…
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When a Local Auto Body Business Hit Rough Waters, Meridian Bank Rolled Up Its Sleeves to Help
Most people think of the business slowdowns related to COVID-19 in terms of the travel, retail, real estate, and food service industries. It doesn’t leap to mind that an auto body repair shop would also suffer. But that’s exactly what happened to Tom Bemiller, owner-operator of Ed’s Auto Body, part of The Aureus Group, located…
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Wiser Wealth: Trading Up to a Bigger House is Challenging in Current Housing Market
While many business areas have been hurt by the pandemic, that has not been the case for the housing market. In fact, it is so competitive among buyers that many properties are receiving offers exorbitantly above asking price. This has a lot of people thinking that it might be a great time to try selling…
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Eagle-Turned-Entrepreneur Brent Celek on Meridian Bank: ‘The Business Culture Is Amazing’
As a tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles, Brent Celek’s on-field role shifted constantly: blocker, runner receiver. That skill — quick decisions/quick executions — served his sports career well. It didn’t hurt his business career, either. Celek spoke of his post-football real estate business at an Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia event. Meridian Bank sponsored.…
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Wiser Wealth: How to Navigate Buying a Home in a Competitive Housing Market
If you thought more than a year living remotely would make people less inclined to search for a home, you couldn’t be more wrong. In actuality, so many people are looking for houses right now that properties are receiving far more offers than they normally would. This competitive market has home-buyers wondering, how do you…
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C&N Partners with the ABA to Deliver Safe Banking for Seniors
C&N is partnering with the ABA (American Bankers Association) Foundation’s Safe Banking for Seniors campaign in a nationwide effort to help older customers and their financial caregivers understand the risks of fraud and financial abuse and how to protect themselves and their loved ones. Financial abuse against older Americans can take many forms, from illegal…
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C&N Donates $800,000 to Benefit Local Education
C&N understands the importance of investing in local education, having donated $800,000 under the Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC). Education is key to a strong and prosperous community. However, there are many budgetary roadblocks preventing children from receiving the level of education they deserve. C&N is committed to closing this gap by supporting local…
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Wiser Wealth: When is the Right Time to Let Your Family Have Their Inheritance?
By Chris Isaac Oftentimes when people think about distribution of an inheritance, they picture the whole family assembled around a lawyer reading out a deceased person’s will. However, nothing is stopping a person from giving out their inheritance while still alive. So if that money could make a big difference for a relative now, should…
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Horsham-based Finance of America Mortgage Adding 1,000 Brokers to Network with Latest Acquisition
Horsham-based Finance of America Mortgage is adding more than 1,000 brokers to its network with the $40 million acquisition of Parkside Lending‘s third-party origination channel, writes Jeff Blumenthal for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The deal creates little customer overlap to FAM’s third-party origination coverage and puts the mortgage lender on the road to becoming one…
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As It ‘Transitions into an Exciting Future,’ C&N Announces Changes to Board of Directors
C&N, a community bank with full-service offices in nine counties in Pennsylvania, including Chester and Bucks counties, has announced changes to its Board of Directors. The Board has appointed Terry L. Lehman as Chairman. Effective May 1, Lehman will succeed Leo F. Lambert, who has served in that role since being appointed in 2014. Lambert,…
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Wiser Wealth: Protecting Your Jewelry When You Travel
By Chris Isaac Everyone wants to enjoy themselves while traveling, but it’s impossible not to be conscious of the fact that you’re more likely to lose your belongings when you’re away from home. For people who wear jewelry, this could result in losing items with a lot of financial or sentimental value. Forbes recently shared…
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Wiser Wealth: Should You Ever Invest in an Idea Nobody Else Believes In?
By Chris Isaac With how reliant we have become on technology it can be bizarre to think back to a time when the things we depend on were not yet commonplace. It can also make you look forward to the future with excitement and wonder what innovations are coming. And for investors, that speculation can…
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Bucks County Lawmakers to Mayor Kenney: Hands off Our Constituents’ Wallets
Bucks County residents with Philadelphia-based jobs that were shifted to work-from-home by COVID-19 can get their city wage tax contributions reimbursed. But Bucks County state lawmakers call for a simpler process, reports Peter Blanchard in the Newtown Patch. Remote employees who logged hours in Bucks County rather than their usual Philadelphia places of work are entitled to have the 3.5 percent city wage tax waived. But doing so…
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C&N Appoints 41-Year Veteran of the Financial Industry to Executive Leadership Team
C&N recently announced strategic organizational changes to align with its value-based, relationship model and to pursue continued growth in a fast-changing marketplace. At that time, Blair T. Rush was appointed to the Executive Leadership Team as Executive Vice President/Region President for the company’s Southeast region, covering all of southeastern Pennsylvania. “Blair has played a critical…
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