Massachusetts

Digital-asset companies will try to develop a less adversarial relationship with the state's securities regulator, who stopped several startups from selling digital currencies as investments.

Hometown, which agreed to buy Millbury Savings Bank, has already completed one acquisition this year and has another pending.

Rheo Brouillard, the head of SI Financial, finally had a solid offer in hand after more than two years of searching for a buyer. But the resignation 10 days later of the man who made him that offer — Berkshire Hills’ Michael Daly — sent Brouillard scrambling.

The Boston company reported a quarterly profit despite mortgage headwinds and lost SBA revenue tied to the partial government shutdown.

HarborOne Bancorp — led by James Blake, one of our five community bankers to watch in 2019 — is a former credit union that recently made its first bank acquisition and has Boston and other markets in its sights.