Who is Hometown Financial Group?
Hometown Financial Group, Inc. is a $6.9 billion multibank mutual holding company headquartered in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and the parent company of bankESB, bankHometown, North Shore Bank, Hometown Mortgage, and North Shore Bank’s Abington Bank and Colonial Federal Savings Bank divisions. Together, our banks offer consumer and business banking products and services through 55 locations throughout Massachusetts, northeastern Connecticut, and southern New Hampshire.
Hometown Financial and our banks were recognized nationally as one of Forbes’ “America’s Best-in-State Banks,” a three-time USA TODAY Top Workplaces award winner, and a top place to work by The Boston Globe and Hartford Courant.
How Hometown Financial Group works for you:
As mutual banks, we have the keys to help customers unlock their potential. Everyone at Hometown Financial is passionate about fulfilling the promise of local, community banking— to guiding customers through the most important financial decisions they face with confidence and assurance, to helping them achieve their goals, and to giving back generously to the many neighborhoods we serve through our sponsorship and charitable giving program, The Giving Tree.
Together, our family of banks takes advantage of the size, scale, and efficiencies of shared centralized resources to fulfill our community banking mission—providing individualized financial support, a suite of comprehensive products and services, smart banking technology, and increased lending capacity—all to ensure our customers can build a successful future.
“Our structure allows our banks to operate independently in their core markets, while taking advantage of shared centralized resources. Our model is scalable and efficient allowing our bankers to focus their efforts on serving customers and growing market share.”
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Each bank has deep roots in the neighborhoods they call home, so each can operate independently to harness its own local branding power while taking advantage of extensive shared resources.
Founded in 1869 as Easthampton Savings Bank, bankESB is headquartered in Easthampton, Massachusetts. We have $1.9 billion in assets and offer a complete line of consumer and business deposit and lending products and services through 11 locations throughout Western Massachusetts.
Through our charitable giving program, The Giving Tree, we support non-profit organizations and causes throughout Hampden and Hampshire counties. In 2024 alone, The Giving Tree donated nearly $515,000 and over the past decade has donated $4 million. bankESB was named a Corporate Citizenship Award winner for the past 11 years by the Boston Business Journal, reaffirming our status as one of Massachusetts’ most charitable companies.
North Shore Bank and its Abington Bank and Colonial Federal Savings Bank divisions are headquartered in Peabody, Massachusetts and have served the community for more than 100 years. We have more than $3.3 billion in assets and offer a complete line of consumer and business deposit and lending products and services through 29 locations throughout eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.
Through our charitable giving program,The Giving Tree, we support non-profit organizations and causes throughout the communities we serve. In 2024, The Giving Tree donated nearly $770,000 and over the last decade donated more than $4.5 million. We were named a Corporate Citizenship Award winner by Boston Business Journal, reaffirming our status as one of Massachusetts’ most charitable companies.
Founded in 1889, bankHometown is headquartered in Oxford, Massachusetts. We have $1.6 billion in assets and offer a complete line of consumer and business deposit and lending products and services through 16 locations throughout Central Massachusetts and northeast Connecticut.
Through our charitable giving program, The Giving Tree, we support non-profit organizations and causes throughout Worcester and Windham Counties. In 2024 alone, The Giving Tree donated nearly $325,000 and over the last decade donated $3 million. bankHometown was named a Corporate Citizenship Award winner by Boston Business Journal for the past six years, reaffirming our status as one of Massachusetts’ most charitable companies.
At Hometown Mortgage, we help potential borrowers like you unlock the right home financing solution for your unique needs. As a division of bankESB, a Hometown Financial Group company that also includes bankHometown, North Shore Bank, and North Shore Bank’s Abington Bank and Colonial Federal Savings Bank divisions, we leverage our combined strength coupled with shared services and technology to work with homebuyers across Massachusetts, Connecticut, and neighboring states to make homebuying simple and stress-free. At the same time, our commitment to community banking and local roots mean we can focus on the unique needs of those who live and work in the communities we serve.