Banking & Finance

AAFCPAs of Westborough, one of the region's top accounting firms, has hired a new chief financial officer.

Sam Pepper, a 30-year veteran of the banking industry, is the new president and CEO of Whitinsville-based UniBank, the bank announced Monday.

Avidia Bank plans to open a full-service location in Framingham this summer, and on Wednesday announced the new branch's leadership team.

The days of people shopping for certain goods in physical locations may be on the way out, but smart developers still can attract a robust retail customer base.

Even if there are fewer reasons than ever to walk into a bank, that hasn't meant branches are closing. Instead, banks are renovating their spaces, going smaller and more informal, and training branch employees to do more of everything a customer may need.

Sherri Pitcher, senior director of business development at the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, is leaving the chamber later this month to take a job with Fidelity Bank.

Biostage will be delisted from the NASDAQ stock market if it loses an upcoming appeal, after the company failed to raise its bid price to $1 within a given 180-day period.

If you are thinking about starting a business or obtaining capital for your small business, many organizations in Central Mass. can help.

In the past 18 months, Provo has acquired two competing financial services practices, begun work on a 3,000-square-foot expansion of its property with an environmental friendly mindset and maintained 100-percent client retention.

SpencerBANK and Southbridge Savings Bank have taken the merger of their holding companies one step further. Last month, the banks announced they would merge as one institution and rebrand as Cornerstone Bank.