Online Banking, Bill Paying and Shopping: 10 Ways to Protect Your Money Internet commerce is fast and convenient, but as with the old-fashioned ways of doing business, it pays to take precautions

Bankers across the country are contributing to the relief effort in Haiti. ICBA posted a link to the American Red Cross on its web site and encourages members to visit:

Washington, D.C. – The FBI today reminds Internet users

US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via phishing email messages that appear to come from the Social Security Administration.

As bank failures are in the news, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is helping consumers understand why, as Chairman Sheila C. Bair has said, "there's no safer place in the world for their checking, savings or retirement money." The Fall 2009 issue of FDIC Consumer News gives facts and figures explaining the agency's financial resources run deep and that insured deposits are fully protected.

Aponik's "Waterlines" features Maine works in Oil starring some of Maine's most enjoyable coastal views.

Biddeford Savings handed out checks to eight different charities Friday morning, dividing the $3,519 in proceeds that Music on Main Street generated this summer.

Biddeford Savings announced this morning that it has awarded a $1000 scholarship to Arundel resident Katelynn Monk to help her with her business studies.

Biddeford Savings has good news for music fans: the bank has made sure the popular Music on Main Street concert series will take place again for the sixth straight summer, thanks to a new partnership it was able to put in place.

Biddeford Savings has hired Jay St. John as Vice President of Residential and Consumer Lending.