Banking & Finance

Fidelity Bank of Leominster has appointed Joann Marsili to the position of executive vice president, chief marketing and digital experience officer, a new title at the $1.3-billion company.

James Kenneth Couture, of Sutton, pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges related to $2.8 million in stolen funds from his six clients over 11 years.

when entrepreneurs of color turn to banks and other investors, research shows they’re often given less consideration than white founders.

ReNew Tatnuck Square, a 120 unit complex at 12-20 Brookside Ave. in Worcester has been sold for the second time in two years, this time for $26.7 million.

SK ecoplant, the environmental division of Korean holding company SK Inc., has made a $50 million investment in Westborough’s Ascend Elements to help commercialize the firm’s trademarked Hydro-to-Cathode direct precursor synthesis process technology, Ascend announced on Thursday.

A corporation registered to the co-founders of Concord’s Arris Partners, LLC has purchased two properties, comprising 16 acres, along Pioneer Drive on the Leominster, Lunenburg border from the president of F & M Tool & Plastics, Inc. in Leominster for $25 million.

Seattle online retailer Amazon is closing its Milford facility at 8 Industrial Road, along with four other Massachusetts facilities in Dedham, Everett, Randolph, and Mansfield, according to a statement by Amazon spokesperson Caitlin McLaughlin, received by WBJ on Friday.

Rockland Trust Co. has chosen Dawn Mugford as its chief risk officer, replacing Edward Seksay who will remain as general counsel of Rockland Trust and parent company Independent Bank Corp. and as president and board chair of Rockland Trust’s affiliated charitable foundations.

Michael Lussier has led Webster First Federal Credit Union as CEO since 1990, having first started there in 1987 as chief financial officer. 

Among the companies with recent hires and promotions are MAPFRE USA, Central One Federal Credit Union, Country Bank, and Rollstone Bank & Trust.