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Wegmans Food Markets Inc. and ESL Federal Credit Union were named to Great Place to Work and Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials list. The grocery retailer ranked 12th on the list while ESL ranked 30th.  Over 398,000 U.S. ...

Hanna Holdings Inc.—the parent firm of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, Nothnagle Realtors and RealtyUSA—has closed on the acquisition of 1st Priority Mortgage Inc. and Nothnagle Home Securities, officials announced Wednesday. The transaction was approved by shareholders May 31. “We ...

Monroe County is among the best areas statewide for mortgage approval, a new report from SmartAsset shows. In its Best Places to get a Mortgage, SmartAsset found that among New York’s 62 counties, Monroe ranked second for its mortgage loan ...

In today’s fast-evolving business environment, executives and employees alike often find themselves taking on different responsibilities than what the position initially required. Chief financial officers in particular often find their talents called on in a variety of business assessments. “There’s ...

While the influx of millennials has effectively changed many workplace processes, one routine—candidate hiring—has been slower to evolve. From the employer’s perspective, the process today looks much the same as decades past. Keeping an open dialogue with potential recruits is ...

The Venture Jobs Foundation on Thursday announced it has received a $100,000.00 grant from JPMorgan Chase & Co. to establish the VJF Jobs Kitchen program. The VJF Jobs Kitchen program provides entrepreneurs with professional and educational resources to accelerate their ...

KeyBank Corp.  on Wednesday hosted its 27th annual Neighbors Make the Difference Day where the firm’s Rochester employees spent the day with nearly 30 organizations to give back to the community. Over 7,000 bank employees took part in the effort ...

Susan Barnes knows how to crunch numbers, but that is far from her only task as chief financial officer at the Center for Governmental Research Inc. Besides poring over the books, she weighs in on strategy, prepares projections and handles ...

Nearly 500 people attended the 2017 Financial Executive of the Year Award event on Thursday at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center. Fifteen financial executives from the business and nonprofit sectors were selected as finalists for the awards, ...

Business activity in New York’s service sector continued to expand in May, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported this week. The New York Fed’s Business Leaders Survey shows that for the fifth consecutive month, business activity in the ...

Small For-Profit Steve Mowers Claims Recovery Financial Services LLC Witnessing the downfall of the first company he worked for was an eye-opening experience for Steve Mowers. “They had over 500 employees, and things were phenomenal,” Mowers said. “Within two years, ...

Jerry Hiller Keuka College The most important quality for a financial executive is integrity, according to Jerry Hiller. Hiller has been vice president for finance and administration at Keuka College since 2004. Prior to that, he was city manager of ...

Fifteen financial executives from the business and nonprofit sectors have been selected as finalists for the 2017 Financial Executive of the Year Award, which recognizes contributions to their organizations and the community during the past year. A Lifetime Achievement award ...

Tompkins Financial Corp. reported the best first-quarter earnings in its history with net income of $15.7 million. Earnings for the first quarter were up 10.8 percent from the $14.3 million reported for the same period in 2016. Diluted earnings per share ...

With mortgage rates hovering near historic lows, some consumers may be tempted to buy a home outside their budget. But not in Pittsford. In WalletHub’s 2017 Home Overleverage Report, an analysis of more than 2,500 U.S. cities and towns found ...