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Corcoran named vice president of commercial lending at Bank of Canton

Robert Corcoran

Canton, MA Robert Corcoran was named vice president of commercial lending at Bank of Canton. Corcoran brings more than 40 years of diverse commercial lending experience to the bank, having successfully grown loan portfolios in his previous roles while also reducing and/or restructuring non-performing loans.

“I’m excited to be joining an established, talented commercial lending team at Bank of Canton,” said Corcoran. “Their approach puts clients’ needs front and center, and the entire lending and underwriting team is focused on client success. It’s a natural fit for me and the way I work – everyone is ready to pitch in and help business clients achieve their goals.”

Corcoran will be working out of the bank’s 490 Turnpike St. headquarters. He joins Bank of Canton from South Shore Bank, where he served on the senior management team. He also has held leadership positions at Salem Five Bank and Rockland Trust.

“Bob is a great addition to the Bank of Canton team,” said executive vice president and senior lending officer Michael Lindberg. “Throughout Bob’s career, he has excelled at growing and preserving client relationships and strengthening his organization’s balance sheet. I’m eager to see him achieve similar successes as part of our team.”

Corcoran earned his B.S. from Bentley University and his M.B.A. from Babson College. He currently lives in Centerville with his wife, Donna.

Established in 1835, Bank of Canton is a Massachusetts-chartered mutual savings bank that offers its consumer, business and government banking customers access to a full array of deposit, loan, investment and convenience service options. As a mutual savings bank, the bank has no stockholders and acts exclusively in the best interests of its customers and communities. The bank lends throughout Massachusetts, and has branches in Canton, Quincy and Randolph and a mortgage center in Auburn. All deposits are fully insured between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Depositors Insurance Fund (DIF).

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