Jacob Passy

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.