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The New York Department of Financial Services will likely institute an on-ramp for new Bitcoin businesses and possibly any other kind of money transmitting startups as a way for them to launch without being burdened by costly licensing requirements.
November 3 -
Wayne Savings Bancshares in Wooster, Ohio, appointed H. Stewart Fitz Gibbon III as president and chief executive of the company and its banking unit.
October 31 -
Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati plans to remain in the business of providing mezzanine finance, even though a rival investment management company has hired four of its lenders.
October 30 -
BBCN Bancorp in Los Angeles has added three directors, including a consultant well-versed in anti-money laundering regulation.
October 29 -
Bank of Sun Prairie in Sun Prairie, Wis., has a new chief executive.
October 29 -
Hanmi Bank in Los Angeles has hired executives to expand its customer base in Texas and Illinois.
October 29 -
Bank of the Carolinas in Mocksville, N.C., appointed Harvey Glick as chairman.
October 29 -
BB&T has opened an office of its capital markets unit in New York to service corporate and institutional customers in the Northeast.
October 29 -
Poynt Co., a startup headed by former Google and PayPal executive Osama Bedier, is looking to take advantage of the EMV hardware upgrade schedule to entice merchants to switch to its new app-based payment terminal.
October 29 -
The $6.4 billion-asset bank said in a press release Tuesday that it has struck a deal with Aperture Media Partners, a film financing company in Los Angeles, to provide loans to the entertainment industry.
October 28 -
CUNA has promoted longtime credit union economist Bill Hampel to chief policy officer.
October 27 -
Besides trying to figure out how to keep health insurance affordable, bankers are wrestling with a slew of other challenges, including recruitment, leadership development and employee engagement.
October 26 -
Sierra Bancorp in Porterville, Calif., has tapped an insider to succeed its retiring chief executive.
October 24 -
Cece Stewart, a 35-year banking veteran who retired from Citigroup in April, has joined the board of First Horizon National Corp. in Memphis, Tenn.
October 22 -
Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen resigned from the board of EBay Inc., saying that the separation of the online marketplace and its PayPal Inc. payments service marks the right time to step down.
October 20 -
Rodney Martin Jr., Voya Financial's chairman and CEO, said he has decided to oversee the Retirement Solutions division himself. As a result, Maliz Beams, the CEO of that division, has left the company.
October 16 -
State Bank Financial in Atlanta has lined up its next chief financial officer.
October 14 -
Sunshine Bancorp in Plant City, Fla., has hired a former executive at Susquehanna Bancshares in Lititz, Pa., as its chief executive.
October 14 -
The Salt Lake City bank has formalized programs to help employees who are in the reserves or have active-duty spouses and children deployed far from home. Its efforts range from raising funds for a family with a severely injured son, to hiring a landscaping firm to mow the lawn of an employee in need.
October 8 -
CardConnect, an independent sales organization of First Data Merchant Services, has hired payments veteran Scott Dowty as chief revenue officer.
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