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...
New type of loan could help you
If your small business is struggling to pay debts, you may qualify for a new type of interest-free loan in amounts up to $35,000,...
Foreclosures booting rent payers too
On the day before last Thanksgiving, Ben Kaplan got an unexpected letter in the mail at his Richter Street apartment in Providence’s Smith Hill...
Connolly resigns as Citizens’ president
PROVIDENCE – Citizens Financial Group Inc. says its president, James G. Connolly, is stepping down.
The Providence-based parent of Citizens Bank did not give any...
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