Banking & Finance

The Business School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is now offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees in financial technology.

Cornerstone Bank of Worcester plans to expand its footprint in the city with the $2.1-million purchase of a former Santander Bank branch in Worcester’s Tatnuck Square.

The North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce in Fitchburg on Tuesday announced the 19 graduates of its nine-month Community Leadership Institute program.

A number of local companies have announced new hires and promotions, including bankHometown in Oxford, SALMON Health and Retirement in Milford, NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs in Worcester, and Rollstone Bank & Trust in Fitchburg

Worcester has a hodgepodge of branded office towers resulting from the shifting office market, acquisitions, and a move to work-from-home policies.

Worcester-based Cornerstone Bank broke ground on its 11th location, its first in Shrewsbury, on July 31.

Most states have already reported their year-end tax collections for the budget year that ended June 30, but Massachusetts is not among them and the delay here has now stretched longer than any point in at least 20 years.

North Brookfield Savings Bank tapped its former chief financial officer, Kaz Borawski, as its new president and CEO following a brief stint as interim president and CEO. Borawski’s first day in the non-interim role was Tuesday.

Legislative negotiators filed a compromise $56.2 billion annual state budget Sunday night, packing major education, transportation and health care policy measures and spending into an overdue fiscal 2024 accord that is expected to win House and Senate approval on Monday.

House Democrats plan to accept a compromise road and bridge maintenance funding bill Thursday after months at an impasse with their Senate counterparts, though the actual accord itself still hasn't emerged.