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Fighting Food Insecurity in Vermont and New Hampshire: A Community Effort

Ublocal

With many pandemic-related food relief programs ending—including increased SNAP benefits and free school lunches —as well as rising inflation and food costs , the risk of food insecurity for residents across our region is ever-growing. It’s also something that we can all work on together to eliminate.

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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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Navigating the Loan Landscape: A Guide to Small Business Financing

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Business plan and financial projections Small businesses applying for an SBA loan must have a business plan with information about their target market, competition, marketing strategies, and a clear understanding of how the loan will be used to help the business grow. Another common mistake is not to address potential roadblocks.

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Walden Mutual aims to serve New England’s food community

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includes (from left): Christina Johantgen (head of marketing and creative), Joe York (head of product), Kelsey Cahill (summer associate), Jackie Charron (chief operating officer and executive vice president), Debbie Morin (chief financial officer), and CEO Charley Cummings. The team at Walden Mutual, a planned de novo in Concord, N.H.,

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Bitcoin Daily: Coincheck’s Investors Take Their Money, Iceland’s Big Mining Electricity Bill

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Until the market matures, cryptocurrency price manipulation is “unavoidable,” according to NEM President Lon Wong. “Price manipulation is not something new,” Wong told CNBC. “You see it in mainstream markets as well. We are in a very nascent, growing phase of our industry and these things are unavoidable.”

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OCC outlines risk plan as Northeastern loan growth doubles

Abrigo

Many of the issues which the OCC will be focusing on ring true for all banks regardless of regulator and region. As portfolios grow and banks enter new risk scenarios, it would be prudent to reflect upon the key areas outlined above to mitigate the various manifestations of risk and to ensure that recent and future growth will be sound.

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The eCommerce Bachelor: Which City Will Get The Rose?

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Jeff Bezos missed a major marketing opportunity there (as if Amazon needs it). only Arkansas, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, Wyoming and the Dakotas did not apply. How is the race to be Amazon’s second home city not a reality show? If Amazon were a teenager, it might say some of the 238 proposed sites are trying too hard.). (If