“You need that presence,” said John F. Heaps Jr., president and CEO of Florence Bank, as he showed off the new branch at 1444 Allen St. in Springfield’s Sixteen Acres neighborhood.

TD Bank will keep a full-service branch in Mason Square, however with reduced hours. The location will be open Mondays and Fridays 8 a.m.-6 p.m. An ATM is available 24/7.

According to a Chase Bank news release, the bank plans on opening at least three more branches in the Springfield area over the next few years. The bank opened its first Massachusetts branch in ...

A group in Springfield, Mass., has applied to form a new bank. Organizers of Green Apple Bank & Trust, which plans to serve central and western Massachusetts, intend to offer retail services and ...

A group of local banks has filed a lawsuit to overturn rules approved in 2011 in Springfield designed to maintain and secure vacant and foreclosed homes. (Mark M. Murray/The Republican file) ...

The others saw increases ranging from 2.3 percent for Brookline Bank to more than 28 percent for the aggressively expanding East Boston Savings Bank and 55 percent for West Springfield-based ...

The mortgage arm of Rockville Bank has acquired the assets of a West Springfield home-loan financier. Rockville Bank Mortgage Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rockville Bank in Vernon, has […] ...

The entities entangled in foreclosure court cases usually belong to the country’s biggest banks. But last week, six small Massachusetts banks were the ones asking the Supreme Judicial Court to ...