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dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.

It's Monday, April 1st, and we're talking financials.

I'm your host, Jason Moser, and on today's show we'll talk about the latest news from the executive Suite at Wells Fargo.

We'll of course have one to watch for everyone out there, but we begin today with a new installment

of Between Two Fools.

Keith Mestrich is president and CEO of Amalgamated Bank with over three decades of experience in the finance industry.

In 2017, Keith guided Amalgamated's acquisition of San Francisco-based New Resource Bank bank creating the nation's largest

socially responsible bank. Last year he helped amalgamated take the next step

by bringing the company to the public markets. I recently spoke with Keith about everything from how

amalgamated is setting the standard as a socially responsible bank to lessons he

learned during the financial crisis and a whole lot more. bank. We love the message. We love what you're trying to do there. And I'm wanting to get a little bit from your perspective. What goes into actually building America's socially responsible bank? What do you want our listeners to know about why that matters?

Yeah, I that's a that's a great question. I think there's really two very important things that go into it.

Our mission is really about helping a lot of other

organizations that do good be more successful in their mission because we take

some of the friction out from their financial transactions and help them execute

better on those financial transactions. So if it's a if it's a human needs

delivery nonprofit that providing care to elderly senior citizens in their

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