Career moves

Beal was a senior vice president in transaction management at Clayton Holdings and an advocate for tougher due diligence in residential mortgage-backed securities after the financial crisis.

The Bancorp in Wilmington, Del., will have a new chief executive next year.

Santander Holdings USA in Boston has named T. Timothy Ryan as chairman of the company and its Santander Bank subsidiary.

National Bank Holdings in Greenwood Village, Colo., has announced the retirement of director Lawrence Fish.

Sheila Bair, a former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., has agreed to serve as a senior adviser to the law firm DLA Piper, focusing on its international practice, according to a memo obtained by American Banker.

Lateral moves can be a way for women in banking to expand their knowledge base and make themselves more appealing candidates for upper management positions, according to the head of TD Bank's consumer bank Nandita Bakhshi.

Bank of Bird-in-Hand in Pennsylvania has hired a president and chief executive.

Liberty Bell Bank in Marlton, N.J., has appointed a new chief executive as it continues to work through credit issues.

Large foreign-owned banks continue to spread out across the U.S., as they turn over every stone looking for new revenue opportunities.

Millennial women are making great strides in the workforce, but still "channel their inner ninth grade insecure freshman when it comes to financial matters," according to Fidelity's head of personal investing.

WASHINGTON — Promontory Financial Group announced Friday that it had given financial awards to two small institutions that are expanding banking access to the underbanked.

The House Financial Services Committee has appointed five subcommittee chairs for the next Congress.

Poage Bankshares in Kentucky disclosed that its chairman has died.

WASHINGTON — The top Republican and Democratic spots on the House Financial Services Committee will remain unchanged in the new Congress.

First Financial Bancorp in Cincinnati has shuffled its C-Suite and appointed a new president.

Carver Bancorp in New York said Deborah Wright will retire as chief executive at the end of the year. The company's current president will succeed her.

The co-founders of Mopay have officially joined the executive team of Boku, which acquired the German company last month.

J. Thomas Wiley will become chief executive of the company's banking unit. The move could free up Joe Evans, the company's CEO, to focus on deploying capital, which could include more acquisitions.

The $5.8 billion-asset company said in a press release Wednesday that Shelley Seifert would fill the newly created role.

HomeTrust Bancshares in Asheville, N.C., has hired a team of commercial lenders to open its first office in Raleigh, N.C.