Personal Finance
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Folds of Honor Opens its 2023 Scholarship Application Window
Folds of Honor, an organization that works with families of disabled or fallen veterans and first responders, has opened up this year’s scholarship application window. The organization began with Lt Col Dan Rooney’s flight home from his second tour of duty in Iraq. An F-16 fighter pilot in the Oklahoma Air National Guard, he became…
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Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Lots of Pennsylvanians
Pennsylvania keeps adding millionaires and climbing up the list of states with the most million-dollar earners, write Ty West and Michael Potter for the Philadelphia Business Journal. According to new data from the Internal Revenue Service, in 2020, there were 18,720 tax returns filed in the Keystone State that had adjusted gross income exceeding $1…
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Malvern Bank to Be Acquired By New Jersey-Based First Bank
First Bank and Malvern Bancorp, Inc., the parent company of Malvern Bank have announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which First Bank will acquire Malvern Bancorp, Inc. and Malvern Bank in a transaction valued at approximately $149.5 million. The merger has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors…
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Meridian Bank Appoints Christine M. Helmig to Board of Directors
Meridian Corporation has appointed Christine M Helmig, CPA, to an open position on the Board of Directors of Meridian Corporation and its principal subsidiary, Meridian Bank, effective immediately. “Ms. Helmig is a great addition to our Board of Directors,” said Chris Annas, Chairman. “Chrissy has been a long-standing friend of Meridian. Her experience and dedication…
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Delaware County Residents Use Different Strategies to Fight Inflation
Rising grocery prices getting you down? Try growing your own vegetables, buying in bulk, or distributing the burden throughout the family. That’s what’s worked for Darby resident Paula Brown and her family, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. Luckily, Brown has had a green thumb since age 13. Her produce section lines the…
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Villanova Alum, Finance Guru Wants to Make Wealth Management More Accessible
Mical Jeanlys-White had a decade worth of experience as an executive at JPMorgan Chase & Co when she founded WealthMore. It’s a startup that is meant to give financial advice to people who usually don’t have access to it. Jeanlys-White’s parents immigrated to the U.S. form Haiti and is first-generation American. She says WealthMore is meant…
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Radnor Woman a Finalist in Tech Awards for Banking Platform
Luveen Sidhu of Radnor has been recognized for her leadership in developing BM Technologies, a digital banking platform that became publicly traded, writes Holly Herman for patch.com. Sidhu, founder and chairwoman of BM Technologies, BTMX, was selected as a finalist in the director of the year category for the US Fintech Awards 2022. An independent…
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Delco Home to Six of Greater Philly’s 25 Wealthiest ZIP Codes
Despite the economic turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic, residents in Greater Philadelphia’s 10 richest neighborhoods saw incomes jump 7.4 percent in 2020, writes Todd Romero for Philadelphia Business Journal. The top 10 wealthiest ZIP codes in the region had an average median household income of $190,967 in the first year of the pandemic, up from…
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Delaware County Has Free Fraud Monitoring Tool for Property Owners
There’s a free monitoring tool from the Delaware County Recorder of Deeds Office that lets property owners safeguard against fraud. FraudSleuth® provides automatic alerts to property owners when any document such as a mortgage, deed, or mortgage satisfaction for a specific parcel is recorded under that parcel’s ID. The software is similar to how credit…
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Delaware County Purchasing Power Remains Strong in PA
Delaware County residents list high among earners in Pennsylvania and continue to have good purchasing power, according to a new analysis recently published by SmartAsset. The analysis was completed as part of SmartAsset’s study on places with the most purchasing power in each county in Pennsylvania as well as across the country. To compile the…
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Delaware County Ranks Among Best Counties to Retire in Pennsylvania
Picking a place to retire, you want a spot where you can enjoy life with as few concerns as possible. Delaware County is among the best counties in Pennsylvania where seniors can settle down and enjoy their own private oasis after a lifetime of working, according to a recently released ranking by Stacker. Stacker compiled…
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Delaware County Ranks Near Top in Purchasing Power in PA
Delaware County has ranked among the top ten in Pennsylvania in SmartAsset’s recently published eighth annual study on the places with the most purchasing power. To find places where the average living expenses are most favorable to the people who live there, SmartAsset looked at the cost of living relative to income to determine the…
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Delaware County Ranks Among Wealthiest Counties in Pennsylvania
Delaware County ranked among the five wealthiest counties in Pennsylvania and placed among the top 250 in the nation, according to a new report by SmartAsset. To determine the wealthiest counties, SmartAsset compared all counties in the U.S. across three main metrics: investment income, property value, and per capita income. Delaware County placed fourth in…
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Delaware County Ranks High Among 50 Highest-Earning Counties in PA
Delaware County is among the highest-earning counties in Pennsylvania, according to a new report by Stacker. To determine the areas that earn the most in the Keystone State and nationwide, Stacker used data from the U.S. Census Bureau to rank counties by 2019 5-year estimated median household income. Delaware County ranked in fourth place with…
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Climbing Grocery Costs Has Us Peeling off More Green to Purchase Greens… and Other Staples
April provided a modest reprieve in inflation, dropping to 0.3 percent from March’s staggering 1.2 percent. Nonetheless, some grocery items still saw prices steeply climb, writes Lauren Liebhaber for Stacker. Year-over-year, the cost of groceries went up by 10.8 percent, the largest annual foodstuff increase in more than four decades. The increase was primarily driven…
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Delaware County Among Top 5 Paycheck Friendly Places in Pennsylvania
Delaware County ranks among the most paycheck-friendly places in Pennsylvania, according to a recently released report by SmartAsset. To determine the paycheck friendliness of each county, SmartAsset used four main metrics: Semi-Monthly Paycheck, Purchasing Power, Unemployment Rate, and Income Growth. Delaware County came fourth with an overall paycheck friendliness index of 55.19. According to the…
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See How Delaware County Taxpayers Fared in Receiving Refunds From the IRS
Delaware County taxpayers received the second-highest federal income tax refunds in the state this tax season, according to smartasset.com. Delco taxpayers received an average of $2,989. Only Montgomery County ranked higher, receiving an average tax return of $3,018. Delaware County was the fourth highest in the state in the number of filers receiving a refund…
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3 Billionaires Reside in or Near Delaware County. According to Forbes List
Haverford resident Jeff Yass, co-founder and CEO of Susquehanna International Group, made the top of a list of 11 Philadelphia-area residents on Forbes’ list of billionaires, writes Ryan Mulligan for Philadelphia Business Journal. Yass has a net worth of $12 billion. He ranks No. 156 on the 2022 World’s Billionaires list released Tuesday. Yass grew…
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