Jacob Passy

Family First Federal Credit Union has named Thomas Dambra as its president and chief executive, the fifth in the credit union’s history.

Sound Financial Bancorp in Seattle has hired a former Federal Home Loan Bank executive as chief administrative officer of its bank.

CUES has selected the five finalists in its 2015 Next Top Credit Union Exec Challenge.

Silicon Valley Bank and MasterCard are accepting applications for the fourth installment of their startup accelerator program Commerce.Innovated.

River Valley Bancorp could face a challenge from an investor who is upset over some of the Madison, Ind., company’s policies and procedures.

In an effort to get a head start on the feeding frenzy, Malvern Federal Savings Bank in Paoli, Pa., will hold job fairs to gobble up employees laid off by BB&T in Pennsylvania.

Mobile and e-commerce payments provider Loviit has expanded to the United Kingdom, where it hopes to reach merchants with global ambitions.

Catskill Hudson Bank in Kingston, N.Y., has hired Orville Aarons as its president. Aarons, a former director at Naugatuck Valley Financial, had been working as a consultant to Catskill Hudson since April.

CommonBond has expanded its student loan refinancing program to more than 2,000 universities at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Payment services provider YapStone has hired former eBay executive Bryan Murphy as its president.

Fidelity Bank, a mutual in Fitchburg, Mass., that's merging with another mutual, has named Christopher McCarthy chief operating officer.

Boston-based Eastern Bank will participate in a pilot of a new partner program from multi-account card provider Stratos.

Amazon has accepted NXT-ID's Wocket smart wallet to retail on its Launchpad program.

Merchants Bank of Bangor in Pennsylvania has tapped its chief operating officer, Tracey Smith, to become chief executive next year.

Promontory Financial Group has hired former Citigroup and Bank of America executive Eugene McQuade.

Prudential Bancorp in Philadelphia has named Anthony Migliorino to the newly created job of chief operating officer.

The $3.4 billion-asset company plans to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, possible acquisitions and capital investments in Bridgehampton National Bank.

Peoples Community Bank in Greenville, Mo., has agreed to buy Cabool State Bank, also in Missouri.

Monaco, previously senior economist at the regulator, succeeds Worth, who left last month.

PSB Holdings in Putnam, Conn., plans to convert from mutual ownership to a stock-owned bank.