Banking & Finance

There was more optimism among Central Massachusetts business leaders heading into 2014. There's even more heading into 2015. Here are the results of this year's Economic Forecast survey, along with out predictions for the year ahead and our report card on how our predictions for 2014 turned out.

TD Bank will pay $325,000 in civil penalties and has agreed to give prompt notice of future data breaches and to comply with state data security rules as part of a settlement announced Monday in connection with an incident that occurred in 2012.

In the last year, data from 96 million credit cards were exposed during breaches at Home Depot...

Federally insured credit unions experienced the highest loan growth since 2006 during the quarter that ended Sept. 30, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) reported Thursday. It was the highest loan growth since 2006.

Worcester's bonds have received a strong rating, indicating a “very strong capacity for payment” of the city's financial commitments, according to a release from Fitch Ratings.

Several banks and a credit union with operations in to Central Massachusetts have been honored by the state's office of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for lending to businesses during the 2014 federal fiscal year, the federal agency announced.

With a mini-computer in the hands of everyone who has a smartphone, mobile banking has been a...

The parent company of Berkshire Bank will acquire Springfield-based Hampden Bancorp in an all-stock deal valued at about $109 million, the companies announced today.

Democratic treasurer candidate Deborah Goldberg has expressed interest in moving the state's $61 billion state pension fund out of fossil fuel investments while her own personal mutual fund holdings include some fossil fuel assets.

Lowell-based Enterprise Bancorp Inc., the parent of Enterprise Bank that has branches in Acton, Fitchburg and Leominster, reported an increase in net income fueled by net interest income for the third quarter.