Banking & Finance

Expected to be completed by Jan. 1, the merger would see DCU, the largest credit union in Central Massachusetts, and First Tech form a $28.7-billion credit union, according to a Tuesday press release from DCU.

A state auditor report has found the Mass Save program provides a skewed distribution of its resources...

Westborough-based defense optics manufacturing firm Kopin Corp. has entered into a securities purchase agreement for private investment in company shares expected to raise $41 million.

Legacy Transport delivers more than 1.8 million pounds of food each year to more than 7,000 monthly households.

The prospect of a shutdown comes as Massachusetts is navigating significant fiscal complexity. The Legislature passed a stream of funding bills earlier this year to address shortfalls in the fiscal 2025 budget, and the state's $61 billion fiscal 2026 budget signed by Gov. Maura Healey this summer relies heavily on federal dollars. 

Hines, a global real estate investment firm based in Houston, has purchased the site of a storage facility near the former site of Rotmans Furniture.

Athol Hospital has risen to the top as the most profitable in Central Massachusetts, according to data released Thursday.

The Devens headquarters of Commonwealth Fusion Systems has been sold for $74 million by a Boston-based real estate investment firm to two investment groups. 

Gov. Maura Healey has been applying a full-court press to pass a $400 million bill aimed at strengthening Massachusetts’ research and innovation economy, but lawmakers have left the governor's plans for a "transformative investment" idling in the seven weeks since Healey proposed it.

Framingham State University’s STEM, students, faculty, and academic programs just received a major boost in funding as a former university professor and his wife have pledged more than $2 million to the Central Massachusetts school.