PeoplesBank, Cornerstone Bank to Merge

Western Massachusetts’ biggest local bank and a prominent Worcester-area community bank say they plan to merge holding companies, the latest pair of mutual banks to combine using this increasingly popular method.

Community Good Works

Fitchburg’s Rollstone Bank gave $10,000 to Ginny’s Helping Hand to help fund food, clothing and other daily basics for people in need in Leominster. See who else gave back.

From Megabank to Mutual Bank

Worcester County’s Cornerstone Bank is facing off in a fight for deposits against some of the same giant banks where its head of retail banking, Altaf Ahmed, worked for 20 years.

Community Good Works

City Realty Group Managing Partners Fred Starikov and Stephen Whalen visited the AME Zion Church in Boston, part of Boston-based CRG’s yearly tradition of donating turkeys and pies to help those in need.

Community Good Works

Somerville-based Naveo Credit Union employees dressed up in costumes on Monday, October 31 and raised over $160 for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society during their Costumed for a Cure event.