I was excited to read that Eastern Bank hired the team behind PerkStreet and created Eastern Labs, with the objective of leveraging the bank’s resources and data to build new financial service technologies, and of digitizing the bank. Dan O’Malley, PerkStreet’s co-founder and former CEO, heads Eastern Labs and is now the bank’s EVP and chief digital officer. A reorganization placed approximately 80 product management, mobile, online, and customer service employees within the new lab. Eastern Labs is responsible for Eastern …
