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Community bank, fintech team up to serve gig-economy workers

American Banker

Somerset Trust in rural Pennsylvania has partnered with RoamHR, a financial platform that assists the self-employed, to add tax-withholding help for contract and temporary workers to the bank's services.

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Banking at the Grocery Store

Banking 2020

Out on the campaign trail, Sen Bernie Sanders (D-VT), has fired up support with calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, raising the minimum wage, and breaking up Wall Street conglomerates. In the past we always considered banks to be banks and nothing else, but that notion is being overhauled.