Career moves

Regions Financial in Birmingham, Ala., should save some money after deciding against filling a soon-to-be-vacant executive post.

Northwest Bancshares in Warren, Pa., has promoted two executives and eliminated a pair of high-level positions.

Josh Rossi is best known for starting the first Satoshi Square, a gathering of Bitcoin enthusiasts who trade the virtual currency for cash in New York City's Union Square, in 2013. He has since brought his ideas to new companies and new parts of the world.

The $184 billion-asset company said in a press release Wednesday that Ricky Brown had taken the reins at Branch Bank & Trust.

Rilla Delorier's successor as SunTrust's chief marketing officer is not from banking, but rather is a veteran of tech firms like NCR. Meet Susan Somersille Johnson.

How First National Bank of Green Forest in Arkansas became Anstaff Bank, in a rebranding with a family twist.

The search is on to replace Rich Weaver as commissioner of the Missouri Division of Finance.

Regional banks have been adding some serious firepower to their boards lately.

Keith Mestrich adds a CEO title, as Amalgamated Bank in New York finally announces a successor to Ed Grebow.

Dan Henry is in search of another "aha" moment. The former CEO of NetSpend is interested in staying in payments, but not necessarily in the prepaid cards niche.

SunTrust names Rilla Delorier's successor as CMO; Amalgamated settles on a new CEO, while NetSpend loses one; and lots of new high-profile board members at banks from New York to Hawaii.

Polonia Bancorp in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., has begun looking for a new president and chief executive to replace its retiring CEO Anthony Szuszczewicz.

Square and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has been in Ferguson, Mo., as part of the protests that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager, earlier this month.

Square and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has been in Ferguson, Mo., as part of the protests that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager, earlier this month.

Highlands Bankshares in Abingdon, Va., has elected a new chairman and president.

Fiserv has hired Jamie Topolski, an executive with experience in bank payments technology, to oversee emerging payments and EMV-chip card implementation at the Brookfield, Wis.-based financial services technology company.

The Bank of Edwardsville in Illinois has begun looking for a new chief executive, after its current CEO, Thomas Holloway, said he would retire next spring.

A loyal patron of the Connecticut bank celebrated her upcoming 95th birthday with some flowers courtesy of the CEO and a chauffeured ride to the annual meeting.

NXT-ID is working with Joey Fatone, former member of the boy band N*Sync, to kick off a series of celebrity endorsements for its biometric Wocket wallet.

Regions Financial has created a corporate and investment banking services group aimed at the financial sector itself.