With vaccination rates increasing — or at least the availability of vaccinations up — we saw business picking up and customers feeling more confident coming into the banking centers.
A little over two years ago, we started talking about our strengths and weaknesses and who we are are and what we do as the largest mutual institution in Western Mass..
We talked for several months about his group of people coming over, and we brought over five people that have an enormous amount of experience on the C&I side.
C&I typically brings over the relationship more than just the real-estate transaction. And now that we have the group of people that we have, I think it's going to be tremendously successful, not just for the Western Mass. market, but for our growth strategy going down into Connecticut as well.
The pandemic has had a significant impact on Massachusetts workers, families, communities, and businesses for nearly two years, and today's signing directs billions of dollars in relief toward those hardest hit across the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth has worked diligently over the past two years to deploy billions worth of federal support to strengthen our economic recovery, support those in disproportionately impacted communities, and get people back to work.
