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SMB Profile: Looking Forward To Christmas In Connecticut

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Like all the towns on the Connecticut shoreline, Guilford is centered around a village green. The classics and science-fiction sections were hardly the biggest casualty of the Guilford’s Green’s tight small business community. It comes back to the point of community. They still had anniversaries. But you know what?

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Storytelling With a Twist Powers Small-Business Connections for This Community Bank

The Financial Brand

This article Storytelling With a Twist Powers Small-Business Connections for This Community Bank appeared first on The Financial Brand. Storytelling in small-business marketing is a common strategy, but this Connecticut bank puts a twist on the approach in several ways.

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Growing a mortgage portfolio: Encourage borrowers to bank local

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With mortgage rates down in the US , many homebuyers are looking locally to their community banks to finance their new, potentially life-changing purchase. In the spirit of the go local movement, new data from Sageworks Bank Information peeked in on 10 cities to see which community banks were making an impact on local mortgage lending.

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A bridge to affordable housing

Independent Banker

Daniel Galindo, pictured, and Doug Schaeffer of Woodforest National Bank helped involve the community bank in providing funding for and access to affordable housing. We worked with the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs to jumpstart its down payment assistance program,” recalls Schaeffer. “We

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Shellfish Industry Tries DTC Strategy

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Take the Connecticut-Long Island oyster ecosystem on Long Island Sound, which is the body of water that defines the border between the two states. She is also a member of the Noank Agriculture Cooperative , which includes all elements of the oyster hatching and farming community on the Long Island side of the sound.

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Affinity Federal Credit Union On The Importance Of Accelerating Digital Transformations

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“We look at everything through the lens of our mission: to support the financial lives of our members and the communities we serve.”. We also worked with big providers and service companies that wanted to get into a market that would traditionally be banks, and they said, ‘Wow, how could we diversify and support your members the same way?’”.

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Regional Banks Guide Corporates To Future-Proof Accounts Payable

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People’s United Bank, which operates across Connecticut, southeastern New York state, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire, recently demonstrated the growing interest of community banks to collaborate with FinTechs to expand their product offering — just as larger national and multinational financial institutions (FIs) do.

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