Career moves

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.

CVB Financial in Ontario, Calif., will have a new chairman starting Jan. 1.

Former President Bill Clinton addressed a crowd of thousands of Southern California kids Sunday at the largest-ever gathering for financial literacy education.

Payveris has hired financial services technology veteran Jeff Weikert as president, as the technology company adds new services designed to make smaller financial institutions more competitive with alternative startups.

Shaza Andersen recently sent out a companywide email stating that employees who don't deposit their paychecks into a WashingtonFirst account will soon be required to pick up paper checks — from her office.

Narayan Bharadwaj, the former general manager and head of mortgage technology vendor Wipro Gallagher Solutions, will serve as president and chief operating officer of the newly created professional services division of document preparation vendor DocuTech.

Cardinal Bankshares in Floyd, Va., is switching leaders again, though it is unclear when the new chief executive will step in.

First Banks Inc. in St. Louis said that Terrance McCarthy will retire as president and CEO on Feb. 13. McCarthy will also step down from the board. Timothy Lake, president and CEO of banking unit First Bank, will succeed McCarthy.

Flagstar Bancorp in Troy, Mich., which has been under pressure from regulators in recent months, has hired a new chief financial officer.

ConnectOne Bancorp in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., has appointed Mark Santasieri chief credit officer.

Hampton Roads Bankshares in Virginia Beach has named John Marshall Jr. as chief risk officer. He succeeds Robert Bloxom, who retired from Hampton Roads at the end of September.