PeoplesBank, a Codorus Valley Company, officially opened its Lancaster City Connections Center at 101 N. Queen St. on Friday. 

More than 200 members of the state higher education workforce will retire this year in exchange for payouts from a one-time incentive program, that the Pennsylvania System of Higher Education offered employees to reduce payroll expenses while avoiding layoffs.

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is hosting its fourth annual financial literacy education conference--a free, one day program that offers strategies to promote financial literacy in schools.

Penn National Gaming, the country’s largest regional gaming operator, said this week it will ring the NASDAQ Stock Market closing bell on Feb. 27.

The PNC Foundation awarded a $75,000 grant to Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts as part of the financial institution’s multi-million, multi-year “Grow Up Great” initiative.

Fulton Financial Corporation, the Lancaster-based owner of Fulton Bank, is issuing subordinated bank notes due 2030 and 2035 to raise money for “general corporate purposes,” according to a company statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

First Citizens Community Bank, a Mansfield-based financial institution, named a new leader to spearhead market strategies in the south-central Pennsylvania region.

U.S. Senator Pat Toomey proposed legislation that would make permanent the full and immediate write off of business expenses that promote growth. Currently, the expensing provision of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, will expire in 2022.

Two holding companies from New York bought the facility for Crayola’s sales and marketing operations in Easton for $5.2 million, plus a property in Lancaster.

According to the state Gaming Control Board, bets made online or in casinos produced $31.6 million in gross revenue in January. That was up from $17.5 million in December.

For the first time in Pennsylvania’s history, 11% of state spending on goods, services and construction went to small diverse businesses, according to a report by the Bureau of Diversity, Inclusion and Small Businesses Opportunities within the state Department of General Services.

Kiva provides zero-interest loans from $1,000 to $10,000 with a focus on business community populations that have been historically underserved or struggle to access capital investment. Through Kiva’s lending platform, local borrowers would be able to access funds loaned from other York community members and gain exposure to 1.7 million potential customers and investors across the globe.

Keenly aware of its partners nearing retirement, Lititz-based business advisory and CPA firm, Simon Lever, spent the last decade forming a pipeline for young talent.

Twice as many community bank and credit union branches opened in Lancaster County during the second half of the post-recession decade as in the first half, according to data aggregated by the Pennsylvania Association of Community Banks (PACB).

Carlisle businesswomen put their networking and business skills to work to help families pay down $24,000 worth of school lunch debt.