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Keri Gohman, president of Xero Americas and a former Capital One exec.

Through the bank’s new API, small-business customers can feed their bank data into Xero’s cloud accounting technology.

Andrew Brzezinski, vice president of Fidelity Institutional (second from right) and Massimo Young, head of data solutions at Bank of New York Mellon (third from left).

Artificial intelligence is not always the right answer to data problems, executives of the two firms said at the In|Vest conference.

Steven Sugarman

The Connecticut bank said its newly minted president, Steven Sugarman, successfully led a private placement and signed a long-term employment agreement that makes him a potential CEO. David Lowery, current chief executive of Patriot, plans to step down in April.

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The 81-year-old Metamora State Bank renamed itself Bank419 to better align its brand with its business after years of regional expansion.

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The Kansas City, Missouri-based bank completed its first bank acquisition in 12 years on New Year's Day. Now it's focused on retaining and growing FineMark Holdings' high-net-worth clients in markets such as Southwest Florida, South Carolina and Arizona.