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Walden Mutual aims to serve New England’s food community

Independent Banker

If it opens its doors as planned in January 2022, Walden Mutual Bank will be the first new mutual bank charter in New Hampshire in a century and the country’s first new mutual charter in five decades. Cummings says Walden Mutual’s mission is to support New England’s emergence as a leader in sustainable and local food.

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Millennials Not Alone in Fleeing Big Banks

NCR

The 24-year-old consults with companies worldwide on how to reach the millennial audience. So last year, the New York resident left the big bank, setting up an account with Simple, an FDIC-insured direct bank based in Portland, Oregon, where he can do all of his banking online – without any monthly fees. “I

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? When I wrote that post in January 2011 there were 7,700 FDIC insured financial institutions. Maybe those millennial futurists don't remember this.

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Pokemon The Surprise Retail Sizzle Of The Summer?

PYMNTS

But when it comes to a tactic that plays rope-a-dope with the facts about something, say as serious as whether or not China hacked into the FDIC, then it is not at all cool. Top as in the very top: the FDIC chairman, his chief of staff, and the General Counsel. Maybe not even from a PR perspective either. Lending Club Algorithms .

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