More Than a Commercial Lender, Meet Gloria Williams, Your Personal Banker, and Community Connection

For 15 years, our Commercial Lender, Gloria Mazzella Williams and her husband, Matt, owned their own personal business, Under Boats, Inc., a commercial diving and marine salvage company in Gloucester, VA. As young aspiring entrepreneurs, they found themselves like many other business owners, needing a commercial loan to get through the early years of establishing […]
How to Take a Payment When the Card Is Not Present
“Virtual Terminals” may not sound like a glamorous topic but they are an alternative solution through our Chesapeake Payment Systems team when you can’t swipe or dip credit and debit cards for customer (or card-not-present) transactions. And getting paid is always exciting. What is a virtual terminal? A Virtual Terminal (VT) is an online point-of-sale solution that allows merchants to manually key card […]
A Message from our Chairman, CEO and President, Jeff Szyperski

Jeff Szyperski, the Chairman, CEO and President of Chesapeake Financial Shares, Inc., shares some thoughts on the strength and soundness of Chesapeake Bank, and why this will continue. Hello, I’m Jeff Szyperski, President and CEO of Chesapeake Bank. I know there’s no dearth out there now of analysis of the Silicon [Valley] Bank failure and […]