CASTINE – Maine Maritime Academy’s Loeb-Sullivan School of International Business and Logistics will hold a lecture by Jerry Bazata, vice president of global business banking for Bank of America, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in Delano Auditorium in Leavitt Hall on the MMA campus.

Bazata will discuss the topic “Current Financial Markets: What Do You Need to Know as a Business Owner.” Other topics he plans to address include ways to reduce transaction exposure, issues regarding terms of sale for goods and services, the overall economy and its effects in the Northeast and in Maine.

For more information, contact professor Elaine Potoker at Elaine.potoker@mma.edu or 326-2121. The lecture is free and open to the public.