Jeffrey West was looking over the geographic territory of his client base — what he calls his heat map — when he noticed something about York County, especially the southern portion of it: There are a lot of people making good blue-collar wages who might need financial advice.

Lancaster County-based Alegre Concierge Services has announced that is has changed its name to Alegre Events, along with adding two new employees. The event-planning business operating out of Penn Township is not changing its scope or focus, company officials said, but is renaming to better reflect their offerings that include consulting, corporate and non-profit event ...

The Hershey Co. expects to close on a $395 million deal by the end of the year with a Charlotte, North Carolina, nutrition bar manufacturer. One Brands LLC, a nutrition bar company with an emphasis on low-sugar and high-protein snacks has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by the Derry Township-based Hershey Co. ...

The establishment of publicly owned banks – those owned by some form of government -- could give rise to a new lending entity in Pennsylvania that some say would directly compete with traditional banks.

Tax experts agree: adjusting to new accounting standards and the effects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act can make the nonprofit world more confusing – and challenging. Here are some tips to help ensure your nonprofit, one of more than 13,000 operating in Pennsylvania, maintains the strong financial backing it needs to continue its meaningful work while meeting today’s state and federal regulations.

An annual week long banking academy has been just one example of methods that local banks, along with the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Financing, have utilized to grow interest in careers in the financial industry among young people.

State and federal officials criticized the most recent legal challenge against the Affordable Care Act and the lawmakers endorsing the erasure of the Obama era legislation in the State Capitol’s main rotunda on Wednesday.

F&M Trust and its holding company, Franklin Financial Services Corp., plan to both move into a larger headquarters by the end of 2020.

When Fred Richstien II sought financing last fall to expand his business in Adams County, he heard about a federal loan program that might help him achieve his vision.. By summer, he had a financing package totaling $845,000 in hand for his company, Laboratory, Analytical & Biological Services, or LABS, of New Oxford, part of which included a Small Business Administration 504 loan facilitated by the Adams Economic Alliance.

In a sign of the times, many employers are enacting workplace policies to address gender issues and show respect to people who may want to be called by names and pronouns that reflect their gender identities rather than their biological characteristics at birth.

Two employees of Boyer & Ritter LLC have been elected principal owners of the East Pennsboro Township-based accounting firm.

Rite Aid Corp. announced Monday morning that a new leader has been found to run the embattled company, taking over management immediately. Heyward Donigan, a longtime executive in the health care industry, will serve as Rite Aid’s CEO and join the board of directors.

Student-loan debt continues to be a major obstacle along the path to home ownership across the nation, particularly for millennials. But it’s not the only one.

Juniata County-based Pennian Bank will make its way to the Harrisburg region with the opening of a new branch later this month in Lemoyne.

President Trump has complained that the Federal Reserve has been hurting the economy, first by raising interest rates and then by not lowering them fast enough. “No help from Fed!” he said on Twitter last week, in what has become a typical broadside.