Tanaya Macheel

Alternative payments are taking hold at a brisk pace. Now a major bank lobbying group and payment company is crying foul.

Regent Bank in Davie, Fla., has promoted Dawn Calder to the newly created position of chief credit officer.

Total System Services (TSYS), the Columbus, Ga.-based payment processor, has hired Patricia A. Watson to be senior executive vice president and chief information officer, effective Sept. 14.

Total System Services (TSYS), the Columbus, Ga.-based payment processor, has hired Patricia A. Watson to be senior executive vice president and chief information officer, effective Sept. 14.

Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu has hired Sheh Bertram as chief information officer.

Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu has hired Sheh Bertram as chief information officer.

A trans-Atlantic trademark dispute pits one of the most talked-about startups in the emerging blockchain technology field against a futures exchange whose founder is involved in another ballyhooed blockchain firm.

Barclays' Barbara Byrne launches her Women in Leadership index, one bank bans all-male shortlists, the @GSElevator guy speaks out for women, Karen Peetz has some ideas to make social finance more attractive and the Manbassador movement grows.

Wintrust Financial in Rosemont, Ill., has named Kathleen Boege general counsel.

New Hampshire Mutual Bancorp in Concord will promote two executives to the position of president of its bank units after the retirement of Chief Executive Paul Rizzi.