Team approach scores with busy Oceanstate staff
On a recent Friday, all the financial advisers, managers and other “team members” at Oceanstate Financial Services sat down for a potluck lunch at...
Employees long have had a voice at Bank Newport
For the third consecutive year Bank Newport has been named one of Providence Business News’ Best Places to Work in Rhode Island. While it’s...
Employee perspective informs Amica’s culture
Health insurance, 401(k), vacation time. Employees at Amica Insurance, of course, are entitled to these standard benefits. But Jill Andy, director of human resources,...
Fair play, openness help win over workers at AFS
Like most in the mortgage industry, Middletown-based Advanced Financial Services (AFS) didn’t have the best of years in 2008. Earnings were 50 percent off...
Bank of America’s chief should have shared more earlier
Rules and lawyers sealed Kenneth Lewis’ lips.
That was the chief executive officer’s excuse before a congressional committee recently for keeping Bank of America Corp....
LGC&D’s Ricci receives auditor certification
Kevin Ricci, director manager of information systems at Lefkowitz, Garfinkel, Champi & DeRienzo (LGC&D), received the designation of Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Currently,...
Washington Trust named ‘Business of the Year’
Washington Trust was recently presented with the Jonathan K. Farnum Business of the Year Award by the Kent Hospital Foundation at the foundation’s “Evening...
Survey: Customer service may help small banks grow
A recent survey commissioned by a New York metropolitan bank indicates that small-business owners can be wooed away from the nation’s largest banks to...
R.I. banks struggled last quarter
The net income from Rhode Island-based banks fell 80 percent in the first three months of 2009, a number pulled down in part by...
State settles with Lucas Group for Global Waiver work
PROVIDENCE – The state of Rhode Island this month reached a $370,000 settlement with the Lucas Group for work done on behalf of the...