Banking & Finance

Marco Bernasconi, former president and CEO of North Brookfield Savings Bank, has been appointed to the position of chief operating and innovation officer at Country Bank.

The chief technology officer of Marlborough-based IPG Photonics Corp. is heading to retirement, as the company’s new CEO looks to overcome falling stock prices and global demand issues.

Employees at Leominster Credit Union, MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, and Mirick O’Connell in Worcester are making strides in their careers.

More than four decades after opening their Worcester accounting firm S&G LLP in 1980, Carl Goldstein and Terry Shepherd knew it was time for a change.

For this rural Massachusetts area, the hospital’s closure will mean extended ER wait times at neighboring hospitals already pushing capacity, quadrupled ambulance turnaround times, and ultimately, the potential collapse of a healthcare system already spread thin.

Three Worcester County nonprofits have been awarded a combined $1.49 million in capital funding to refurbish their early education and out-of-school time program facilities predominantly serving low-income families. 

Marlborough-based IPG Photonics Corp., a global laser manufacturing company founded in a Moscow basement laboratory in 1990, has sold its remaining assets in Russia, citing the impact of ongoing sanctions related to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Steward Health Care has signed "definitive agreements" to sell four of the six Massachusetts hospitals it has been working to offload since filing for bankruptcy in May.

Supporters of the new surtax on wealthier Massachusetts households have been cheering the investments in education and transportation that it's triggered. But this week, fiscal conservatives are applauding fresh comments from former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick. who said the tax is influencing pro sports rosters, with player agents using it as a "sledgehammer" in negotiations.

Robert Paulhus, president and CEO of Clinton Savings Bank, is planning to retire from his position of 16-years come March 31.