Banking & Finance

We're now more than a month past a deadline that was supposed to mark a major retail transition to a more secure credit card technology in the United States.

SpencerBANK and Southbridge Savings Bank will merge their mutual holding companies, bringing together their assets while continuing to remain independent, the banks announced Wednesday.

Dick Fiske Sr. and his Heart to Heart Foundation of North Brookfield was honored by the Children's Smile Coalition at Hanover Theatre in Worcester last month.

Katherine Fairbanks knows a thing or two about branding – and business survival. A lifelong Millbury native, she has 20 years of experience in rubbish disposal through the family business, Millbury Rubbish Removal (MRR).

Any one of the six 2015 Outstanding Women in Business is amazing in her own right, but the combined force of this class presents a vast array of lessons and insights for men and women of all ages looking to succeed in their professional and personal lives.

Earlier in my commercial banking career, I came upon the customer files of a small company launched as a startup more than 50 years ago. Today, it is a well-known technology company. My bank had financed some of its startup costs. However, within just a couple of years, the financing needs of that company increased to millions of dollars, and the bank was no longer able to support its growth.

Business consulting and technology outsourcing company Virtusa of Westborough announced Thursday the availability of a technology security product called vToken.

For lenders, financing solar projects is becoming a bigger piece of the business.

Seven years ago, the words dominating the Massachusetts housing market news were “crash” and “plummet.” Then came...

When Barre Savings Bank President and CEO Guy Boyer went looking for a partner bank to merge with, it was the culture of Fidelity Bank, headquartered in Leominster, that drove his final decision, not figures and numbers. With 146 years of serving the community in and around Barre, it was important to him that a partnering bank have the same outlook and attitude toward its customers and employees as Barre has.