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The blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings has added Sallie Krawcheck to its board.

Barclays Makes Plans; Watchdog Barks at MBA CEO

Armada, a technology consulting firm in Tulsa, has hired as its president Frank McKeon, a former IBM executive who consulted with banks.

NCUA issued its prohibition orders for the month of February, prohibiting four people from employment and activity in the affairs of any federally insured financial institution.

Staley's Troubled Waters; Jain Joins SoFi

Buying and selling branches is routine for a lot of banks, but it's big news at First National Bank of Dwight in Illinois.

Pacific Mercantile Bank in Costa Mesa, Calif., announced four executive promotions Friday.

Tech giants like Intel and Apple are doing more business with women- and minority- owned underwriters; Christine Lagarde has five more years at the IMF; and why Lehman Sisters might not have failed. Plus, are girls getting a bad rap from dictionaries and bad counsel from parents?

Payment technology provider Stripe aims to equip global entrepreneurs with the necessary banking and payments relationships to launch an online business in the U.S.

JPM's Loan Loss Reserves; Standard Chartered Ends Bonuses

Univest in Souderton, Pa., has hired Megan Duryea Santana as general counsel for the company and its banking subsidiary, Univest Bank and Trust.

USAA has eliminated foreign transaction fees for its credit cards.

Zain Group, a telco based in Kuwait, has launched a mobile money service in Iraq with eServGlobal, a provider of mobile money and value-added service solutions for telco providers.

UBS executive Rosemary Berkery has returned to the Swiss company's U.S. operations after a medical leave.

The Treasury Department will invest an additional $2 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program into a federal fund that seeks to protect homeowners from foreclosure.

CCB Bankshares in South Hill, Va., has raised $3.5 million in a private placement of debt and will use some of the money to exit the Small Business Lending Fund.

Bridgewater Savings Bank in Raynham, Mass., said that its chief executive, James Lively, will retire on Dec. 5 and that Peter Dello Russo, its president and chief operating officer, will succeed him.

It may not quite live up to his Oscar-nominated role in "The Buddy Holly Story," but Gary Busey certainly made an impression on Jim Hughes in a new television ad for Unity Bank.

Malvern Bancorp in Paoli, Pa., has named Howard Kent chairman of the company and of the $727 million-asset Malvern Federal Savings Bank.

Ally Bank CEO Diane Morais talks about rolling out mortgages and credit cards; there’s talk of putting Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the Supreme Court; the judge in the MetLife SIFI case talks tough to FSOC; the Mean Girls talk really has to go; and how corporate directors talk about the lack of women on boards (warning: men think there aren’t a lot of qualified women, but, um, could that be because their network is mostly male?).