Melanie Scarborough is a contributing editor for Banking Exchange magazine and www.BankingExchange.com. She is based in Washington, D.C.. Scarborough was senior editor of Community Banker, where she received the APEX award for feature writing, and a regular contributor to ABA Banking Journal. Melanie previously was an associate editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Va., and a monthly columnist for the Washington Post.
![With a dedicated bank staff for builders and buyers, “builders get product out faster; they pay sub[contractor]s faster; houses are selling faster— and we hope to make those mortgage loans,” said Needham Bank's SVP Stephanie Maiona.](/media/k2/items/cache/d53c89e6112e06952771c7ecc5b4808a_Generic.jpg?t=20160716_210913)
