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By adamg - 7/9/12 - 9:50 am

BosGuy reports Posh, the high-end gift shop on Tremont Street, is being replaced by a bank.

By adamg - 3/15/12 - 7:16 pm

West Roxbury bankitis, in which the number of bank branches rises higher than the number of pizza places, is spreading. John Ford reports the building housing the Purple Shamrock near Faneuil Hall has been sold and that the new landlord's plans call for the bar to be replaced with a bank. And Ford says he's had enough and has just bought the domain name notanotherbank.com:

By Ron Newman - 6/29/10 - 10:24 am

Boston-based Wainwright Bank, which bills itself as "the country's leading socially progressive bank", is selling itself to much larger Eastern Bank, also based in Boston. They expect to close the transaction this fall, after which time the Wainwright name will eventually disappear.

By Ron Newman - 4/1/08 - 5:15 pm

TD Banknorth wants to merge with New Jersey-based Commerce Bank and rename the whole thing to TD Commerce Bank.

Just one problem -- there's already a Commerce Bank & Trust in Worcester, and they say the new name would infringe their longstanding trademark.

Earlier: It's TDious to keep changing the Garden's name

By Ron Newman - 8/23/06 - 11:41 am

But you wouldn't know it from reading this article in today's Globe.

Memo to Globe business editors: learn something about the SUM ATM network.

By Aqua - 12/30/05 - 5:34 pm

Get this: I made a $500 deposit to my bank three days ago, which got processed yesterday. An Amazon purchase I made of $4.99 got processed yesterday as well. I looked at my account activity and saw that I was charged an overdraft fee. I call my bank. The dude tells me that if I make a deposit, they hold ALL of the money in my account until the deposit clears. To be clear, not just the amount of the deposited check, but ALL of the money in my account. I.E. on the day of the deposit, I can't withdraw funds, and if I use my check card, I get an overdraft fee.

Me: "But what if I had tried to use an ATM yesterday?"

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