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Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley became the latest big banks Monday to promise to cut their support for the coal industry in the name of reducing the pollution blamed for global warming.

Evans Bancorp in Hamburg, N.Y., has hired John Connerton to become its chief financial officer.

Financial Institutions in Warsaw, N.Y., has agreed to buy Courier Capital, an investment advisory firm in Buffalo, N.Y.

People’s United Financial in Bridgeport, Conn., has dismissed three employees in the wake of alleged fraud on commercial real estate loans.

The New York firm on Thursday sold 3 million voting shares in the $9.4 billion-asset United Community to Morgan Stanley, which acted as the sole underwriter on the offering.

A man accused of operating a bitcoin exchange allegedly owned by the mastermind of a criminal enterprise that hacked at least nine big financial institutions and publishing firms, including JPMorgan Chase, pleaded not guilty to money laundering.

Springleaf Holdings has changed its name to OneMain Holdings after buying its top competitor from Citigroup for $4.49 billion.

NCR has reached an agreement for an $820 million investment from private equity giant Blackstone Group, which it will use to fund a $1 billion stock buyback.

There's another fintech accelerator coming to New York.

M&T Bank has begun dismissing former Hudson City Savings Bank workers in New Jersey, following the completion of its acquisition of the company.

M&T Bank has expanded its leadership in the metro New York region after completing its acquisition of Hudson City Bancorp.

Evans Bancorp in Hamburg, N.Y., said that its chief financial officer has left to pursue other interests.

Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $258 million to the Federal Reserve and New York’s Department of Financial Services, and to fire six employees, to resolve a probe into sanctions violations from 1999 to 2006 for allegedly handling transactions linked to Iran, Libya, Syria, Burma and Sudan.

MasterCard has appointed Craig Vosburg to president of North America markets.

BlackRock's cash-management business has agreed to manage about $87 billion in assets for Bank of America clients as it seeks to build scale in an industry grappling with money-market fund regulations.

JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay California $50 million to resolve claims the bank cheated tens of thousands of credit-card customers while collecting debts from them, California Attorney General Kamala Harris said.

Flushing Financial in Uniondale, N.Y., has promoted newly hired executive Susan Cullen to chief financial officer.

The government's aggressive (and unsuccessful) prosecution of tiny Abacus Federal Savings Bank stands as one of the oddest episodes of post-crisis era.

M&T Bank in Buffalo, N.Y., has completed its acquisition of Hudson City Bancorp in Paramus, N.J., putting to rest a deal that had been announced more than three years earlier.

The New York company took investors on a roller coaster ride over a dozen years, with issues that included a CEO's death, another leader's ambitious M&A strategy, and an ill-timed effort to upgrade outdated technology.