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

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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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Non-Profit Community Spotlight: Copley Hospital and Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital

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In fact, last year we provided meaningful support to over 175 non-profit organizations throughout northern Vermont and northern New Hampshire. In this piece, we highlight Copley Hospital and Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital. Union Bank has always prioritized giving back to the communities we serve.

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Which are America's healthiest credit unions?

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Whether it is securing funds in a checking or savings account, or investing in a retirement fund, many Americans need a sense of security that comes with an outstanding experience from their financial institution. Credit unions often prioritize providing that security blanket through a positive banking relationship.

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

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.” And new automated teller machines (ATM) in New England will make it easier for people to buy and sell their bitcoin, Finextra reported. Coinsource , the world’s largest bitcoin ATM network, has rolled out 10 new machines in Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Customers withdrew just over 40.1

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OCC outlines risk plan as Northeastern loan growth doubles

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Security measures to deter and detect cyber-attacks. Many of the issues which the OCC will be focusing on ring true for all banks regardless of regulator and region. The OCC on Oct. • Vendor and third-party management processes.

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The Election That Misplaced Small Businesses

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Small business owners don’t expect to be the star of the show, but wherever we went — and we went to Vermont , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Virginia , South Carolina and Georgia — we heard the same two things over and over again. Can someone please make capital available? 2) Can taxes be made comprehensible?

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