Nice gig

BANK of Bird-in-Hand sounds like a prudent name for a lender, perhaps suitably for the first bank to be founded in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Its name is no marketing ploy, however; it is merely taken from the southern Pennsylvania town that is home to this one-branch outfit. What really marks the bank out is the clientele it caters to, the local Amish community, a religious group sceptical of modern technology and, it turns out, a rather good credit. Since opening in 2013, Bank of Bird-in-Hand has never had to write off a loan.