Jacob Passy

Western Nebraska Bank in Curtis will buy a branch in Paxton, Neb., from Pony Express Community Bank.

OceanFirst Financial in Toms River, N.J., has agreed to buy a branch office in its hometown from Provident Financial Services.

Bank of the West in San Francisco has hired three development officers for Small Business Administration loans.

The cloud computing company Salesforce has introduced Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, a series of applications written for financial services firms. The first application in the series is designed to facilitate the relationships between financial advisers and their clients.

FirstMerit in Akron, Ohio, has reached an agreement with Paychex to provide payroll-processing services.

Wireless transactions provider Apriva and payment technology services company Global Payments have teamed up to release a white-label EMV mobile payment offering.

Algonquin State Bank in Illinois has promoted several employees in a revamping of executive management.

Phoenixville Federal Bank & and Trust in Pennsylvania has converted to a state charter.

ASB Bancorp in Asheville, N.C., has received its second demand in less than a month to put itself on the auction block.

Visa's online payment service, Visa Checkout, has added 33 more merchants and won the support of new issuers in China and the United Arab Emirates.