Banking & Finance

Main Street Bank in Marlborough on Friday announced it promoted two long-time executives to be its executive vice president and chief operating officer.

With the American economy humming along at a steady rate – with job rates, household spending and consumer confidence all up – financial institutions lent more in 2017 than at any year since before the Great Recession, according to the Federal Reserve.

Financial literacy should be taught in school, but is rarely spoken about in the home. As a result, most people get their education in bits and pieces.

Fifty years ago, Len Rosen founded Security Engineered Machinery, providing destruction for top-secret government documents and commercial clients.

Computer information about you lives forever and can be the source of identity theft or even an accidental identity change.

Prominent venture capitalist Jim Glasheen will join UMass Medical School on Dec. 4 as the executive vice chancellor for innovation and business development.

While consumer spending has been "surprisingly weak," the Massachusetts economy jolted forward in the third quarter.

Holliston biotechnology firm Biostage, Inc. was delisted from the NASDAQ on Friday because its stock price was too low.

Leominster-based Fidelity Bank and Gardner-based Colonial Co-operative Bank will merge to create a financial institution with assets of $870 million.

The long-time Assabet Valley bank is riding the industry wave of expansion and growth.