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Five Questions With: Tim Bowen

Tim Bowen is assistant vice president of home operations for MetLife Auto & Home in Warwick – part of New York City-based Metropolitan Life...

Survey: Most Americans dip into savings

PROVIDENCE – More than half of the 1,029 Americans who answered a recent online survey admitted to tapping into their retirement savings account early. The...

Bond refinancing saves 5 R.I. municipalities $560K

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank recently refinanced the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund bond, generating a savings of $559,826 for five municipal...

Wells Fargo names new leadership team, including key Providence post

PROVIDENCE – Wells Fargo & Co. has named Michael DiSandro as its commercial banking leader for southeastern and eastern Massachusetts, and he will continue...
RI ATTORNEY GENERAL Peter Neronha says he intends to go back to the General Assembly next winter and try again to get additional state funds so his office can beef up its Antitrust Division and concentrate more on multistate litigation against companies. / COURTESY/RI ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE

Spend more, collect more from AG’s office?

R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Neronha wants to be more aggressive in pursuing consumer protection and antitrust cases against big business, but says he...
ALL THE DIFFERENCE: Chris Carlozzi, Rhode Island state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, said making it less expensive for small companies to reorganize under bankruptcy protection can “make all the difference” between survival and going out of business. 
 / COURTESY NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS

New bill would simplify bankruptcy process for small businesses

Advocates for small businesses may finally get the legislation they’ve been seeking. Congress passed a bill in July to make it simpler and less expensive...

Michigan bank to open home loan center in Providence

PROVIDENCE – After an absence of about a decade, Flagstar Bank plans to open a home loan center in Providence in September. The Troy, Mich.-based...

Five Questions With: Donna Dailey

Donna Dailey is Bank of America Corp.’s senior vice president for consumer banking in the Greater Providence market. She oversees the bank’s nine local...

Report: Gen Z contributing to growth in consumer credit market

PROVIDENCE – Gen Z, the generation born since 1995, increasingly took part in the consumer credit market in the first half of this year,...

Slater Technology Fund invests in Providence ‘e-learning’ startup

PROVIDENCE – The Slater Technology Fund, a local nonprofit seed fund for business ventures, has invested $25,000 in GoPeer, a Providence-based “e-learning” startup, as...
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