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EVO Payments is set to purchase Deutsche Postbank’s merchant acquiring business, P.O.S. Transact.

Paygevity, a payments processing and vendor services company based in New York, has raised half of its funding goal in its first week on securities-based crowdfunding website Crowdfunder.

Pacific Premier Bancorp in Irvine, Calif., has named Allen Nicholson chief financial officer.

Financial messaging organization Swift opened its KYC registry to fund distributors and custodians Thursday.

British online payments company Optimal Payments has acquired Canadian mobile platform developer FANS Entertainment for about $13 million.

Independence Bancshares in Greenville, S.C., has raised nearly $8.5 million to help it expand its payments, technology and digital banking operations.

F.N.B. in Pittsburgh has agreed to buy five branches from Bank of America in eastern Pennsylvania.

First BanCorp in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has agreed to sell about $200 million in nonperforming loans and other assets to improve credit quality.

ATM operator Cardtronics has signed an agreement to divest its U.K. cash-in-transit operation for retailers to international cash handling services company Loomis.

California officials briefly raised hopes among digital currency proponents Friday by releasing a statement that they would drop plans to regulate digital currency businesses and instead defer to the legislature.

Exeter Financial has hired Freddie Mac executive Paige H. Wisdom to be its chief financial officer.

Westbound Bank in Katy, Texas, has promoted Troy England, chief lending officer, to president.

Investor communications company Broadridge Financial Solutions has entered into an agreement with Thomson Reuters Lipper to acquire its Fiduciary Services and Competitive Intelligence unit.

Atlantic Coast Financial in Jacksonville, Fla., has named Tracy Keegan its full-time chief financial officer.

Former Citigroup executive Deborah McWhinney has joined the board of IHS, a provider of information on markets and industries worldwide.

Former Citigroup executive Deborah McWhinney has joined the board of IHS, a provider of information on markets and industries worldwide.

Radian Guaranty has added two national account managers and an inside sales account management team to work strictly with its credit union customers, their members and their trade associations, the private mortgage insurer announced Wednesday.

Bitcoin startup 21 Inc. has revealed its plans to create a mining chip called a BitShare that would be embeddable into Internet-connected devices to continuously mine bitcoins.

First Capital Holdings in New York has shed three businesses.

Ripple Labs, creator and a developer of the Ripple payment protocol and exchange network, has raised $28 million in series A funding, it announced Tuesday.