“M&T is a bank for communities – including the communities of local businesses throughout the areas we serve that have shown remarkable resilience and determination to serve their customers during the pandemic,” said Eric Feldstein, M&T’s head of business banking. “We want to support their recovery and growth by exposing them to the nearly 10 million visitors our website gets each month.”

This is the third consecutive year M&T has featured some of its business clients in a Spotlight Shop – but the first it’s been open to businesses throughout M&T’s footprint. The bank tested the concept in Baltimore during the past two years. 

In 2019, M&T launched its Spotlight Shop in a modular pop-up shop located in downtown Baltimore that featured 12 local retailers rotating through the space every two weeks for six months. Last year, M&T moved the Spotlight Shop online – a pandemic-inspired adaptation of the original concept – and again…

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