Pennridge Community Day Citizen of the Year David Hetherington looks forward to grandparenting twins times two
Florida can wait. This year’s Pennridge Community Day Citizen of the Year David Hetherington and his wife, Gwendolyn, are still anticipating moving there, but now that won’t happen as quickly as planned after David’s June 1 retirement as senior vice president and senior residential loan officer of Perkasie-headquartered First Savings.

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Peak opportunity to pay down mortgage debt
With interest rates so low, offset products are back in favour once more

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Ireland welcomes rescue fund’s lower rates
Noonan says pricing of money from EFSF fund to be reduced

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Tighter margins for Malaysian banks
Petaling Jaya (The Star/ANN) – Net interest margins (NIMs) of banks in Malaysia are expected to remain compressed due to intense competition among banks for mortgage loans and deposits amid anticipation of further interest rate hikes this year, analysts said.

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Kitsap Co. women among Social Security’s ‘dead’
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — Joyce Simpson, 87, was “scared to death” when her Social Security and pension checks stopped showing up in the mail. “Scared, because I didn’t know what was happening. I was alone,” the Bremerton woman said. “And I didn’t have any money.”

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Bank funding crunch overshadows Europe stress test
LONDON (Reuters) – A Europe-wide test of the safety of its banks risks becoming a sideshow as long as politicians struggle to contain the continent’s debt crisis and the detrimental impact on day-to-day funding for lenders.

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Factbox: Coming events in the euro zone debt crisis
(Reuters) – Following are upcoming events linked to the debt crisis in the euro zone:

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